Friends of Te Papa and Museums and Galleries
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Forgotten Islands of the South Pacific: Exploring the Sub-Antarctic Islands
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- 28 DEC 2024 – 4 JAN 2025 You won’t find them mentioned in a travel brochure on your high street; you won’t find them in most guidebooks, you probably don’t know anyone that has ever been there and they don’t even appear on some maps of the New Zealand’s South Pacific – these are the ‘forgotten islands’.
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Gavin Rutherford and Circa Theatre: Celebrating 20 years of the Christmas Pantomime
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- Join us for a special, fun event to mark 20 years of a Wellington family tradition – the Circa Theatre Christmas Pantomime! Gavin Rutherford is a seasoned theatre and film […]
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Reading Group: 21 November 2024
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- Our Reading Group takes place on the first and third Thursday of the month. Reading group 21 November: The wonderful Briony Hogg, owner of Marsden Books will be our guest, showcasing […]
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Slow Looking: Generation X
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- Join Museum Education Specialist Laura Jones for an enjoyable session where we use strategies to help us slow down and enjoy looking at art more. Following on from our recent […]
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Reading Group: 3 October 2024
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- Reading group 3 October: Te Papa Press will introduce and discuss Leslie Adkin: Farmer Photographer By Athol McCredie. Leslie was a passionate farmer and an even more passionate photographer. He […]
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Curators Tour: Weaves of the World Textile Exhibition
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- Join textile experts Shani Pillai and Joji Jacob for a one-hour private curators tour of their forthcoming textile exhibition Weaves of the World, showing at the NZ Academy of Fine […]
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Back-of-House Tour: New Art Acquisitions (ii)
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- Join Te Papa’s art curators Rebecca Rice, Justine Olsen and Athol McCredie for an exclusive look at new acquisitions into the national art collection. Visitors will be taken to two […]
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Back-of-House Tour: New Art Acquisitions (i)
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- Join Te Papa’s art curators Rebecca Rice, Justine Olsen and Athol McCredie for an exclusive look at new acquisitions into the national art collection. Visitors will be taken to two […]
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Reading Group: 19 September 2024
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- Reading group 19 September: The wonderful Briony Hogg, owner of Marsden Books will be our guest at the Reading Group next week. She will be showcasing interesting and popular books […]
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Slow Looking
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Reading Group
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- Our new Reading Group will take place on the first and third Thursday of the month, starting with Sept 5. Each session will showcase a new Te Papa Press book, with monthly […]
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Friends of Te Papa Reading Group
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- Our new Reading Group will take place on the first and third Thursday of the month, starting with Sept 5. Each session will showcase a new Te Papa Press book, with monthly […]
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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Back of House Textiles Tour
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- Go behind the scenes with curators Katie Cooper and Stephanie Gibson to see some of the highlights of Te Papa’s textile and dress collections. From a bright blue 1890s wedding […]
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Back-of-House Botany Collection Tour
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- Te Papa Botany Curators Leon Perrie and Carlos Lehnebach will introduce the herbarium collection, showcase its highlights, and discuss how it is used. See plants collected during Cook’s first Pacific […]
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Back-of-House Botany Collection Tour – Evening
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- Te Papa Botany Curator Leon Perrie will introduce the herbarium collection, showcase its highlights, and discuss how it is used. See plants collected during Cook’s first Pacific voyage, engravings from Joseph […]
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Madras Checks: A Global Symbol of Social Equality
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- Let us take you on a colourful adventure on the back of the humble Madras Checks! Our adventure will begin from the tropical shores of South India, where Madras Checks originated.
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Directing Shows within the ‘Sense and Sensibility’ and ‘The Tempestuous’ Time Periods
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- Jane Austen wrote Sense and Sensibility’ in the late 1700’s / early 1800’s where the décolletage was in vogue, and Shakespeare was writing in the late 16th Century where women […]
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Annual General Meeting 2024
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- The Annual General Meeting of the Friends of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Inc will be held Thursday 27 July at 6pm in ICON, Level 2, Te Papa.
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Shared histories, connected futures: The entangled relationships between Aotearoa New Zealand, Germany and Sāmoa – Afternoon Session
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- The island nation of Sāmoa is rich in natural resources and cultural heritage, but it also has a turbulent history of colonisation and occupation by foreign powers, primarily New Zealand […]
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Shared histories, connected futures: The entangled relationships between Aotearoa New Zealand, Germany and Sāmoa – Morning Session
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- The island nation of Sāmoa is rich in natural resources and cultural heritage, but it also has a turbulent history of colonisation and occupation by foreign powers, primarily New Zealand […]
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Friendship Month – with Friends of Circa
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- 6 July – 3 August. We are proud to announce our new partnership with Friends of Circa.This year we are collaborating to support Sense and Sensibility showing at Circa Theatre […]
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Discoveries from the Bounty Trough
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- Earlier this year, Te Papa scientists Andrew Stewart, Thom Linley and Kerry Walton, along with NIWA, were granted a rare opportunity by Ocean Census—a 21-day expedition with the singular goal of discovering as many new species as possible.
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Artist Talk: Tim Christie
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- Tim Christie is a New Zealand-based multi-disciplinary artist. His art practice emerged from a series of explorations where he examined the intersection between geometric design and figurative form. Starting with […]
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What Happened Down Inaha Road: The Historical Geography of South Taranaki
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- Join Richard Willis, Victoria University Senior Associate, School of Geography, Environment, and Earth Sciences, as he gives us fascinating insight into the rich and varied history of Inaha Road, in […]
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Exclusive Charter Members Event: New Acquisitions Tour
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- By invitation to our Charter Members only, join Te Papa’s art curators for an exclusive look at new acquisitions into the national art collection.
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The Unsettled: The Forgotten Corners of our Settler-Colonial Histories and What We Can Do About Them
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- Join author Richard Shaw as he takes his through his new book, The Unsettled (2024, MUP), which is based on responses he received to an earlier account of his great-grandfather’s […]
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Floor Talk: Encounters – The Portrait Room
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- The portrait room, Nga tai whakarongorua | Encounters, has been at the heart of Te Papa’s Toi Art galleries since their opening in 2018. We’ll be saying goodbye to these […]
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Otago Heritage Tour
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- 29 APRIL – 5 MAY 2024 Explore the richly historic and scenic Otago region, from its former gold rush towns to its alpine mountains and gorges, then across to the city streets, wild coasts, and heritage architecture of Dunedin, all with knowledgeable local guides.
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Len Lye, Animation and Surrealism
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- Join Victoria University Art Historian Raymond Spiteri as he discusses the development of the film practice of Len Lye, and its proximity to surrealism. While surrealism does provide one reference […]
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Textile Conservation: The Restoration of Forest in the Sun
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- Forest in the sun, by renowned textile artist Joan Calvert, was created specifically for the large Tākaka marble wall of the Beehive. The abstract design evokes the experience of walking […]
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