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Reading Group: 17 October 2024

Reading Room, Mezzanine, L4, Te Papa Te Papa, 55 Cable Street, Wellington, New Zealand

Our Reading Group takes place on the first and third Thursday of the month.  Reading group 17 October: Briony Hogg, owner of Marsden Books will showcase interesting and popular books from her shelves. Fiction: Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout A hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to […]

Free

Reading Group: 7 November 2024

Reading Room, Mezzanine, L4, Te Papa Te Papa, 55 Cable Street, Wellington, New Zealand

Our Reading Group takes place on the first and third Thursday of the month. Reading group 7 November: Michael Szabo - Wild Wellington Hot off the Te Papa Press Wild Wellington is the most up-to-date guide to the wildlife and wild places of Te Upoko-o-te-Ika. Written by well-known chronicler of all things native and natural Michael Szabo, […]

Free

Tour of Taranaki and Tongariro

***SOLD OUT***11 - 16 NOVEMBER 2024 A Six Day Tour Curated Exclusively for Friends of Te Papa, Led by Author and Victoria University Lecturer Richard Willis. We leave Wellington and head to Hawera. Along the way we will stop at the sites of Whanganui, we take the Inaha Road to Waimate Pa site, we check out the gas plant and inspect the historical sociolology of the old Willis farm. Next we tour around the majestic Mount Taranaki. Sites and stops include Opunake and Parihaka. We lunch in Pukeiti Gardens and admire the rhododendrons. From there we stop at Mount Moturoa, check out Pukekura Park and finish the afternoon at Puke Ariki Museum.

Back-of-House Botany Collection Tour – Afternoon (ii)

Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington

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 Banks’ Florilegium, and other treasures! The Botany Collection comprises some 350,000 dried plant specimens, with about 1500 added annually.  It is one of Te Papa’s […]

$25.00 – $30.00

Back-of-House Botany Collection Tour – Evening (ii)

Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington

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 Banks’ Florilegium, and other treasures! The Botany Collection comprises some 350,000 dried plant specimens, with about 1500 added annually.  It is one of Te Papa’s […]

$25.00 – $30.00

Reading Group: 21 November 2024

Reading Room, Mezzanine, L4, Te Papa Te Papa, 55 Cable Street, Wellington, New Zealand

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 interesting and popular books from her shelves. We will be joined by author Clare Gleeson for a reading from her book The Fairer Side of […]

Free

Walking Tour: Geological Curiosities of Wellington CBD (ii)

Te Papa Assemble at the Main Entrance Foyer

Join geologist Hamish Campbell for a fun and fascinating 2-hour walk through the Wellington CBD, where we'll learn about geologically significant sites along the way! Starting at Te Papa, Hamish will tell us about the Dolomite stone used to build Te Papa - find out why it's known as the 'cheese of the rock world'.  […]

$50.00 – $65.00

Curator’s Talk: The 2023 Strannik Auckland Island Expedition: An Extraordinary Botanical Voyage to the Subantarctic

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

In January 2023, Te Papa Botany Curator Heidi Meudt was one of a team of Aotearoa New Zealand botanists and crew who travelled to Motu Maha Auckland Islands to undertake botanical research and make new collections of plant specimens. During this expedition, the team spent a total of 27 days on the ship MV Strannik, including […]

$25.00 – $30.00

Gavin Rutherford and Circa Theatre: Celebrating 20 years of the Christmas Pantomime

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

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 actor, producer, and director, having performed in over 50 Circa shows and turned in a long-standing run as the "Dame" in the popular tradition of […]

$25.00 – $30.00

Forgotten Islands of the South Pacific: Exploring the Sub-Antarctic Islands

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’. Despite their low profile, they are among the most remarkable wildlife reserves in the
Southern Ocean, designated UNESCO World Heritage sites and afforded the highest protection of any nature reserves in New Zealand. Remote, uninhabited and on no regular shipping route, access is further restricted by a strict Management Plan which limits the number of people allowed ashore each year.