**Sold Out**Go behind the scenes with curators Katie Cooper and Stephanie Gibson to see some of the highlights of Te Papa’s textile and dress collections.

From a bright blue 1890s wedding dress with huge leg of mutton sleeves, to a throw away cellulose dress given out by the Campbell’s Soup Company in the 1960s, the collections represent both mass produced fashion and bespoke one-off garments.

This tour will give an insight into some of the objects and the work curators and collection managers do to care for them.

Our new Reading Group will take place on the first and third Thursday of the month, starting with Sept 5. Each session will showcase a new Te Papa Press book, with monthly guest speakers from authors to historians to publishers to share their process. Mark your calendars: First and third Thursday of the month. 2:00 pm – […]

Reading group 19 September: The wonderful Briony Hogg, owner of Marsden Books will be our guest at the Reading Group next week. She will be showcasing interesting and popular books from her shelves.   This week’s line-up:  Fiction: You Are Here by David Nicholls – This is the story of Micheal and Marnie who are thrown together […]

Reading group 3 October: Te Papa Press will introduce and discuss Leslie Adkin: Farmer Photographer By Athol McCredie. Leslie was a passionate farmer and an even more passionate photographer. He excelled at capturing the everyday life of farming families, and the great and interesting things that happened around him. This book is hot off the […]