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- Museums and National Identity
  - 20 Aug 2026
  - Friends of Te Papa
  - Friends of Te Papa invite you to an illustrated talk exploring how museums across Central and Eastern Europe express national identity shaped by centuries of empire, conflict, and cultural change.
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- Age Concern and Te Papa collaborate on a Pilot Programme
  - 24 Feb 2026
  - Age Concern Wellington
  - Age Concern recently collaborated with Te Papa on a pilot programme to bring Kaumatua to Te Papa to experience the culture and history of the museum, some for the very first time. Vanessa, our Events Coordinator, along with Te Papa staff, were able to share this opportunity with the Manners St Coffee Group and Omai ... Read more
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- A lost vision for Te Papa
  - 14 Jan 2026
  - Wellington Scoop
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- Ngā rārangi kōrero o te Tiriti i hunaia—Redacted Treaty Panels debut as art
  - 11 Nov 2025
  - Victoria University of Wellington
  - Ka whakarewatia tētahi whakaaturanga hou ki Te Pātaka Toi i Te Herenga Waka. Ka whakaaturia ētahi taonga mai Te Papa, arā, i ngā rārangi kōrero o te Tiriti i whakarerekētia e ngā ringa toi me ngā kaiwhakatumatuma tata tonu i te rua tau ki muri.
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- Age Concern Wellington and Te Papa: Sharing Pacific Knowledge Together
  - 25 Sep 2025
  - Age Concern Wellington
  - Age Concern Wellington is proud to collaborate with Te Papa in offering unique opportunities for our social connection group participants to connect with Pacific heritage. On two recent occasions, Te Papa welcomed groups made up of participants from some of Age Concern’s regular programmes for a very special experience. The visits began in a private ... Read more
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- 2025 New World Wellington Open (July 19-20)
  - 29 Jun 2025
  - Table Tennis Wellington
  - Mark your calendars for the 2025 New World Wellington Open on 19 & 20 July 2025. For the 10th consecutive year, this event’s main sponsor is New World Wellington City, 279Wakefield Street, Wellington City (near Te Papa). Enter online! Details:
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- Sniffing out seabirds on Mana Island
  - 13 Dec 2024
  - Te Papa's blog
  - Te Papa vertebrates curator Colin Miskelly recently spent 3 days on Mana Island following a conservation dog searching for well-concealed petrels in the lush vegetation. He kindly agreed to share a ‘blog with a dog’ with us. Miro is a 4-year-old German short-haired pointer cross. He is one of the
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- Matariki kōrero: What’s in an exhibition?
  - 12 Jun 2024
  - Te Papa's blog
  - As part of this year’s Matariki celebrations, Exhibition Experience Developer Dan Parke talks about creative storytelling in the Mānawatia a Matariki exhibition space on Rongomaraeroa, the marae here at Te Papa. This piece originally appeared in The Post on Wednesday 12 June.Read more
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- Highlights from the 2024 City Nature Challenge in Greater Wellington
  - 13 May 2024
  - Te Papa's blog
  - The iNaturalist City Nature Challenge is an annual event where cities around the world compete to record the most observations and species, and have the greatest number of participants over a four-day period. Science Researcher Lara Shepherd highlights some of the interesting discoveries made during the challenge, in what isRead more
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- Another PhD student flies the nest!
  - 1 May 2024
  - Te Papa's blog
  - Each year, several biology and ecology postgraduate students are co-supervised by Te Papa natural history researchers. One of these students, Weixuan Ning, has completed his PhD at Massey University in Plant Biology. His co-supervisors – Botany Curator Heidi Meudt and Associate Professor Jen Tate – talk about his time as a Massey and Te Papa student, and the mahi he has been involved in.Read more
  - Accepted from Te Papa blog feed 27 months ago by tonytw1
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- Jellies, clowns, and stars: spectacular wildlife beneath Wellington’s waves
  - 18 Apr 2024
  - Te Papa's blog
  - Wellington is known for being a biodiversity-rich city with many of its surrounding hills protected in reserves and birdlife booming from active predator control.
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- Save A Spider Day 2024 🕷️
  - 13 Mar 2024
  - Te Papa's blog
  - You may be surprised to learn March 14 is Save A Spider Day. As they are not always the most popular of animals, some readers may be wondering why on Earth anybody would want to save spiders at all! In this blog, our spider man and spider fan Dr PhilRead more
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- Review: The Drifting Room
  - 1 Mar 2024
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - By Paul Harvey What: ‘The Drifting Room’ by Stephen Bain, an event part of The Performance Arcade – Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts Where: Waterfront, East side of Te Papa When: Thursday 22nd February (2pm) How: 8 people enter a tent-like, lightweight structure with the intention to move around, sense and observe the world beyond its […]
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- Review: The Drifting Room
  - 1 Mar 2024
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - By Paul Harvey What: ‘The Drifting Room’ by Stephen Bain, an event part of The Performance Arcade – Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts Where: Waterfront, East side of Te Papa When: Thursday 22nd February (2pm) How: 8 people enter a tent-like, lightweight structure with the intention to move around, sense and observe the world beyond its […]
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- Patrick Brownsey 1948–2023
  - 22 Nov 2023
  - Te Papa's blog
  - Pat was a stalwart of the museum, beginning in 1977.
  - Accepted from Te Papa blog feed 32 months ago by tonytw1
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- Leslie Adkin’s Excursion to Kāpiti Island
  - 23 Oct 2023
  - Te Papa's blog
  - Leslie Adkin (1888–1964) was a farmer by profession, based in Levin.
  - Accepted from Te Papa blog feed 33 months ago by tonytw1
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- The Digby/Woolf Project is wrapping up…
  - 3 Oct 2023
  - Te Papa's blog
  - For almost two years, Te Papa has been digitising the Spencer Digby / Ronald D Woolf collection of photographic negatives. Now the project has reached the end of its funding, here's some highlights from the current team members. Read more
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- Matariki: a time to share your aspirations for the coming year
  - 13 Jul 2023
  - Te Papa's blog
  - In 2022, we created an exhibition experience, Mānawatia a Matariki, a place for manuhiri to reflect and look to the future. Here are some insights into the types of pledges and aspirations shared in 2022.Read more
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- Dinosaurs of Patagonia star at Te Papa this summer
  - 1 Jul 2023
  - Te Papa
  - Te Papa will be the only New Zealand venue for Dinosaurs of Patagonia – a blockbuster exhibition of recently-discovered dinosaur species featuring one of the biggest creatures ever to walk the planet: the 37-metre-long Patagotitan mayorum. Excavated in 2014, these South American giants have been described by Sir David Attenborough as “one of the most extraordinary finds in the history of palaeontology.”
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- Jim Allen, artist, 1922–2023
  - 30 Jun 2023
  - Te Papa's blog
  - New Zealand artist, teacher, and critic Jim Allen passed away on the 9th of June, at the age of 100. Allen was one of the most influential, visionary figures of his generation. Here Curator Modern Art Lizzie Bisley and Curator Contemporary Art Nina Tonga reflect on his work and remarkable legacy.Read more
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- Crustacean celebrities of Aotearoa New Zealand on display at Te Papa
  - 18 May 2023
  - Te Papa
  - Crabs, shrimps, lobsters, barnacles, slaters and other crustaceans are the stars of a new mini exhibition presented by NIWA and Te Papa. Opening 22 May, Mawhiti Tino Rawe | Clever Crustaceans is a playful exploration of the bizarre and diverse world of five marine crustaceans. They can change their shape, circle the globe, and maybe even cure cancer – crustaceans are the unsung heroes of the sea. NIWA scientists Rachael Peart and Kareen Schnabel worked with Te Papa experts to deliver this mini exhibition that showcases the importance and special capabilities of the ‘insects of the sea’.
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- Mana taonga in action: Cyclone Gabrielle recovery in Ngāti Kahungunu
  - 16 Mar 2023
  - Te Papa's blog
  - Iwi and hapū in regions affected by Cyclone Gabrielle suffered damage to marae, urupā, and taonga – some irrevocable – causing long-term impacts on these communities. Te Papa staff had their boots on the ground to help out at four marae in Ngāti Kahungunu. Here, they share their kōrero.Read more
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- Growing up with Te Papa – celebrating 25 years of Te Papa Tongarewa
  - 13 Feb 2023
  - Te Papa's blog
  - Thousands of people have worked at Te Papa – while it was being designed, then constructed, and since it opened to the people of Aotearoa New Zealand on 14 February 1998.
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- Te Papa celebrates 25 years with new strategy
  - 13 Feb 2023
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  - On Tuesday 14 February, Te Papa celebrates 25 years since opening with a new Rautaki | Strategy to take it forward into the future. The museum’s co-leaders, Kaihautū | Māori Co-leader Arapata Hakiwai and Tumu Whakarae | Chief Executive Courtney Johnston, and its Board led by Dame Fran Wilde have embraced a new vision for Te Papa to carry it forward for the next 25 years and beyond. By 14 February 2023, Te Papa will have welcomed more than 34 million visitors since opening. It cares for more than two million items, from ancient fossils to digital artworks, from tiny aphids to ocean-going waka. It consistently rates as one of the world’s best museums, and its approach to storytelling and indigenous knowledge remains a global model.
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- Free concerts! - Te Papa is celebrating Māori language music
  - 29 Jan 2023
  - Inner-City Wellington
  - From Te Papa Nau mai, haere mai! Welcome! Minaaka Music invites you to celebrate Māori language music during Waitangi weekend 2023.
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- Thomas Kirk’s new species of Veronica from Newtown Park, Wellington in 1896
  - 16 Oct 2022
  - Te Papa's blog
  - Recently the Botany team at Te Papa dedicated a week to curating several boxes of plant specimens – we called it the Botany Blitz! Our aim was to crack open boxes that have been patiently waiting – months, years, or in some cases decades – to be processed and databased.
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- Review: Krishnan’s Dairy
  - 22 Sep 2022
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Review by Talia Carlisle. A wise man once told me that real loves grows, and so does my love of Indian Ink’s now legendary tale of Krishnan’s Dairy that wound up its final season in Wellington this week. The production is a well polished gem in the crown of creative team Jacob Rajan and Justin […]
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- New book explores Lāuga, Sāmoa’s premier cultural oratory practice
  - 26 Jul 2022
  - Victoria University of Wellington
  - In early June, Dr Sadat Muaiava from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Languages and Cultures launched his new book, Lāuga: understanding Sāmoan oratory (Te Papa Press).
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- Largest-ever repatriation of Moriori ancestral remains welcomed at Te Papa
  - 8 Jul 2022
  - Te Papa
  - This morning, Te Papa welcomed 111 Kōimi T’chakat Moriori (Moriori skeletal remains) and 2 Māori ancestral remains with a hokomaurahiri (repatriation ceremony). This is the largest-ever return of ancestors belonging to a single imi (iwi, tribe). It coincided with the opening of a refreshed display of Moriori taonga (treasures) at Te Papa.
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- Luit Bieringa 1942–2022
  - 1 Jul 2022
  - Te Papa's blog
  - It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Luit Bieringa on 21 June.
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