https://wellington.gen.nz/te-papas-blog+places Items tagged with Te Papa's blog and Places. https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2022/10/17/thomas-kirks-new-species-of-veronica-from-newtown-park-wellington-in-1896/ 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. newtown newtown-park te-papa places museumsandgalleries art blogs Sun, 16 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2022/10/17/thomas-kirks-new-species-of-veronica-from-newtown-park-wellington-in-1896/ Te Papa's blog 2022-10-16T00:00:00Z -41.3206306 174.78273176115312 Newtown Park, Melrose, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2020/04/10/the-carnivorous-giant-snails-of-khandallah-wellington/ Endangered giant snails that suck up earthworms like spaghetti are living in a small colony in Khandallah. Curator Invertebrates Rodrigo Salvador tells us more.Read more The post The carnivorous giant snails of Khandallah, Wellington appeared first on Te Papa’s Blog. khandallah te-papa wellington art rates places museumsandgalleries government blogs Thu, 09 Apr 2020 22:23:17 GMT https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2020/04/10/the-carnivorous-giant-snails-of-khandallah-wellington/ Te Papa's blog 2020-04-09T22:23:17Z -41.2903326 174.78192750276241 Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2013/12/13/french-connection-lisa-renard-intern-at-te-papa/   Lisa Renard, Tamahou Temara and Tracey Kuiti on top of Wainuiomata Hill, Saturday 5 October 2013. Photo and caption courtesy of Tamahou Temara. Lisa Renard- Te Papa intern from the University of Strasbourg, France Lisa is a PhD student and studies at the University of Strasbourg in social and cultural anthropology with Prof Denis... Read more » te-papa wainuiomata people museumsandgalleries art places blogs Fri, 13 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2013/12/13/french-connection-lisa-renard-intern-at-te-papa/ Te Papa's blog 2013-12-13T00:00:00Z -41.2903326 174.78192750276241 Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2012/04/19/tokelau-expo-a-different-loan-request/ A few months ago we received a rather unusual loan request, on the surface the request looked quite straight forward however on closer inspection it was going to be rather challenging. First of all the Community Mafutaga Tupulaga Tokelau Porirua had asked if they could borrow some of the Tokelauan taoga in the Te Papa Pacific Collection for a big Easter Festival held every two years, this year organised by the local Tokelau community in Wellington. As the community isn’t an institution (which we usually lend to) and because they only wanted the objects for a few hours on Easter Sunday we needed to treat this request a bit differently. porirua te-papa places museumsandgalleries art blogs Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2012/04/19/tokelau-expo-a-different-loan-request/ Te Papa's blog 2012-04-19T00:00:00Z -41.2903326 174.78192750276241 Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2012/02/14/no-evidence-that-stoats-have-impacted-on-kapiti-islands-birds/ Kapiti Island is one of New Zealand’s premier bird sanctuaries. It is home to nationally important populations of little spotted kiwi, kaka, North Island saddleback, stitchbird and North Island robin, as well as other threatened bird species. The island was considered to be free of all introduced mammal pests after rats were eradicated in 1996. [...] kapiti conservation places museumsandgalleries art blogs te-papa Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2012/02/14/no-evidence-that-stoats-have-impacted-on-kapiti-islands-birds/ Te Papa's blog 2012-02-13T00:00:00Z http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2011/11/21/exploring-a-wellington-south-coast-plant-community/ Te Papa’s Botany team recently ventured to a Wellington City Council Reserve called Hue tē Taka Peninsula/Moa Point located on the south coast of Miramar Peninsula. Our aim is to compile a species list of the plant community, supported by vouchered specimens that will be stored in Te Papa’s herbarium (collection of dried plants). Most plant species including seaweeds, moss, liverworts, lichen, ferns and seed plants will be collected. Before collecting any plants, we obtained a permit from Wellington City Council. miramar places museumsandgalleries art blogs te-papa Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2011/11/21/exploring-a-wellington-south-coast-plant-community/ Te Papa's blog 2011-11-21T00:00:00Z -41.3133541 174.8196538 Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/08/19/porcupine-fish-on-petone-foreshore/ I had a call yesterday from Wellington's Dominion Post newspaper needing an expert to identify some fish found washed up on the Petone foreshore. Andrew Stewart, Te Papa's fishes collection manager, identified them as porcupine fish. petone places museumsandgalleries art blogs te-papa Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/08/19/porcupine-fish-on-petone-foreshore/ Te Papa's blog 2009-08-19T00:00:00Z -41.2249675 174.8790351 Petone, New Zealand http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/08/03/pohutukawa-flowering-is-it-christmas-already/ No, it is not Christmas already. (Fortunately the year hasn’t passed by that quickly.) But this pohutukawa on Wellington’s waterfront, opposite Frank Kitts Park, seems to think so. It has been spluttering into flower over the last few weeks. waterfront places museumsandgalleries art blogs te-papa Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/08/03/pohutukawa-flowering-is-it-christmas-already/ Te Papa's blog 2009-08-03T00:00:00Z