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    • Dunedin Art & History Tour
      • Join us for a custom-made exciting journey to Dunedin, where we’ll immerse ourselves in the rich history, vibrant art, and captivating culture as we explore a variety of fascinating locations. […]

    • Whanganui Historic Homes Tour
      • 8-11 October 2025 We are joined by a local historian to look at many aspects of New Zealand history, including settlement, lifestyle, and design. We view private properties that are not open to the general public, hidden away in the beautiful New Zealand countryside where little has changed since their period of construction, between 1880–1915.

    • 2025 Chatham Islands Excursions
      • Since 2002 these excursions to the Chatham Islands has been offered to, and enjoyed by, many Friends of Te Papa. Touring with Hamish and Chris is a rare opportunity to visit the Chathams in a safe and convivial context. The plan is to visit Chatham and Pitt Island, sea and air conditions permitting.

    • Australia Top End Adventure
      • 1 – 11 August 2025 Immerse yourself in Aboriginal culture and learn from indigenous guides about ancient rock art and their way of life and experience the remote natural beauty of the “Top End” of Australia. Starting and ending in Darwin, a city rich in Aboriginal Art and culture, this tour will take you deep into the vast wilderness of Arnhemland, defined by rocky escarpments, gorges, rivers and waterfalls. You will be staying 2 nights at a Safari Lodge at Mt Borradaile, a registered sacred site to explore rock shelters with stunning rock art, savannah woodlands, pristine waterways and observe wildlife, before heading to the World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park. Here you will experience a guided tour through Ubirr Aboriginal rock art and a cruise on Yellow Water, a tranquil wetland which is home to a diversity of flora and fauna. Then the tour will take you to Katherine for a visit of Nitmiluk Cultural Center and to experience the Nabilil Dreaming Sunset cruise. Discover the stories of the Jawoyn people against the magnificent backdrop of Nitmiluk Gorge. You will also visit Cutta Cutta Caves and Edith Falls before returning back to Darwin. Another highlight of this tour is a visit to Tiwi Islands, meet and engage with an aboriginal community famous for their traditional lifestyle, stunning artwork, vibrant fabrics and textiles. This amazing tour also includes a full day trip from Darwin to Lichtfield National Park, an area of jaw dropping beauty, spectacular water falls and enormous Magnetic Termite mounds. An historic walking tour of Darwin on the last day concludes this tour. Are you ready for your Top End Adventure?

    • Dutch 17c Painting: Johannes Vermeer 1632-75
      • Only 36 paintings are attributed to Johannes Vermeer, but they are among the most revered in the history of art. Join Oxford University lecturer Alice Foster as we take a closer look at these celebrated works of art. Vermeer began his career painting large scale biblical and mythological subjects but switched to small scale genre scenes depicting daily life above and below stairs. The works are remarkable for their purity of light, clarity of execution and a serene, timeless dignity. But there is often an edge, something unresolved in Vermeer’s work, that leaves us with a sense of mystery.

    • A Waikato Pilgrimage
      • 5-8 June 2025 This tour offers an insight into the role of the church and the early settlement of the Waikato region. Led by Sir David Moxon; a former Archbishop […]

    • Reading Group: 15 May 2025
      • Our Reading Group takes place on the third and fourth Thursday of the month. The next is installment is Thursday 15 May: Bryony Hogg from Marsden Books will share with us […]

    • Japan’s National Parks, Art and Culture Tour
      • A CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF HONSHU, OSAKA TO OSAKA, INCLUDING SOUTH KOREA 14 – 29 May 2025: Heritage Expeditions, pioneers in authentic small ship expedition cruising, invite you to join them on an unforgettable circumnavigation of Japan’s main island Honshu and exploration of its wilderness, arts, culture and rich history with special guest and renowned multi-disciplinary artist, Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit and New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate Lisa Reihana.

    • Hills Hats Tour – 7 May
      • Join us for an exclusive tour of Hills Hats, a Wellington institution since 1875, personally guided by Rosie Smuts-Kennedy, and a unique opportunity to be fitted for your own hat! […]

    • Hills Hats Tour
      • Join us for an exclusive tour of Hills Hats, a Wellington institution since 1875, personally guided by Rosie Smuts-Kennedy, and a unique opportunity to be fitted for your own hat! […]

    • Reading Group: 24 April 2025
      • Our Reading Group takes place on the third and fourth Thursday of the month. Thursday 24 April: Whiti: Colossal Squid of the Deep – By Victoria Cleal, illustrated by Isobel Joy Te […]

    • Reading Group: 17 April 2025
      • Our Reading Group takes place on the third and fourth Thursday of the month. Thursday 17 April: Bryony Hogg from Marsden Books joins us to showcase popular titles from her […]

    • Day Trip: War in the Wellington Landscape
      • Join New Zealand’s best-known historian, Jock Phillips for a special day trip around Wellington’s war memorials, with historical commentary on New Zealand in war, both locally and internationally. We’ll spend […]

    • Workshop: Adornment and Identity
      • To continue celebrating Te Papa’s awe-inspiring Vivienne Westood & Jewellery exhibition, Museum Education Specialist Laura Jones will lead us through a fun and engaging session to explore identity through adornment.

    • Reading Group: 27 March 2025
      • Our Reading Group takes place on the third and fourth Thursday of the month. Thursday 27 March: Central Otago Couture: The Eden Hore Collection, by Jane Malthus and Claire Regnault, […]

    • Tour of the Classics Museum
      • The Classics Museum at Victoria University houses a collection of ancient Greek and Roman artefacts: vases, coins, sculpture, objects for use in daily life. In this tour, Dr Diana Burton will show us how the collection offers a window into the world of the ancients, and you'll also get a chance to handle some objects yourself. Dr Diana Burton is associate professor in Classics, Greek and Latin at Victoria, and curator of the Classics Museum. She is an expert in ancient art and iconography, and teaches in the fields of Greek art, death, religion, myth, and literature.

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