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Photography, Lindauer, 60’s design & more

We are offering a series of three lectures to meet the art curators and hear about their work and research. Each Curator will speak for about 20 - 30 minutes on their chosen topic, to be followed by questions and an opportunity to discuss further over a glass of wine. Free Parking. Book for all 3 in the series to reserve a place and enjoy a 20% discount. Click here for details and to book...

Includes free parking and a glass of wine

Lissa Mitchell, Athol McCredie and Justine Olsen

Meet Lissa, Athol and Justine and hear about their interests and current research at Te Papa. Historical photography, documentary photography of the '60s and '70s, and modernist interiors are all covered in this absorbing trio of talks. Free parking and a glass of wine.

Includes free parking and a glass of wine

Rediscovering photography

Treasures from the photography collection: new research into historic, and early colour photographs...

$20

New Zealand Photography Collected

Athol McCredie will talk about some of his favourite ‘picks’ and why they were selected for this exhibition of over 300 rare and fascinating photographs ...

$10.00 – $39

Talk: The photography of Leslie Adkin

Korero, Level 3, Te Papa Te Papa, 55 Cable Street, Wellington, New Zealand

Te Papa has a large collection of Adkin's photographs but they have not been greatly accessible in the past. This is now changing. Spend the morning with us and hear from Te Papa's curator of photography Athol McCredie on what has been achieved and what an end result might look like.

$15.00 – $25.00

Talk: Ans Westra Photography

Te Huinga Centre, Level 3, Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

David Alsop of Suite will give a talk about managing the Ans Westra photo archive

$20.00 – $30.00

Postponed : David Cook on community, ecology and space.

Te Huinga Centre, Level 3, Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Most of David's documentary projects deal with communities in transition, contested space, community and ecology. 

$25.00 – $30.00

High Tea: Celebrating Katherine Mansfield

Icon, Level 2, Te Papa Cable Street, Wellington

In 1940 the National Art Gallery acquired a striking portrait of Katherine Mansfield, by the American artist Anne Estelle Rice. It is a bold, modern painting, full of colour and pattern, and alive with the rhythm of early 20th-century modernism.

$65.00 – $80.00

Book Talk: A History of New Zealand in 100 Objects

Te Huinga Centre, Level 3, Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

 With his recently published “A History of New Zealand in 100 objects”, Jock Phillips creates powerful stories about exhibits in museums, including 24 objects held by Te Papa.

$25.00 – $35.00