Only 5 more days until Newtown Festival 2025 !! On Sunday 2nd March Newtown streets, including parts of Riddiford Street, Rintoul Street and Constable Street, will be closed for the festival. Buses will detour from 5am to 9pm, and a festival shuttle will run between Wellington Station, the festival, and Kilbirnie from 9:30am to 7pm. […]
In this reflective session, Sarah Hopkinson, Head of Learning at Te Papa, explores the vital role museums play within Aotearoa’s wider education ecosystem and the unique ways they nurture creativity, collaboration, and community.
Petone with the Swindale Shield on their home ground, following today’s win over Paremata-Plimmerton. Photo: Grant Wall. By Steven White & Scott MacLean Petone are the 2026 Swindale Shield champions, winning the first-round title for the 16th time with next week’s final round to spare with a 43-17 win over Paremata-Plimmerton this afternoon. Petone and...
Victoria University’s Classics Museum examines the complex afterlives of antiquities through two remarkable objects—a Roman portrait head now subject to repatriation after being identified as illicitly excavated, and a richly carved child’s sarcophagus later revealed to be a modern forgery.
