Terrace Station was the home of Sir John and Rose, Lady Hall, and has remained with his descendants through to the present day. The current owners, Kate and Richard Foster,…
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Talk for Friends of Te Papa by Dr Peter McNeil on Magic Fashion. 9 December. While I was getting my glass of wine before going in, I heard someone saying…
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Following our visit to the Steventon Homestead we stopped at the small Glentunnel Museum. The surprisingly extensive rooms of this museum tell of the early settlers and the industrial history…
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A tour of the Arts Centre, Christchurch, is New Zealand’s largest collection of Category 1 heritage buildings. It demonstrates the complexities of restoration with completed and damaged buildings side by…
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Even in the rain the sculpture park and garden at ”Ohinetahi”, Governors Bay, was a spectacular sight!
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Two quirky features of our biodiversity captured the interest of Friends of Te Papa who joined Te Papa’s botany curator Carlos Lehnebach and botany researcher Heidi Meudt at a Science…
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Exploring the origins of modern art, from the bold experiments of Cezanne, to the radical innovation of artists like Matisse and Picasso, this exhibition documents the seismic shifts that took…
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Glasses of wine in hand, Friends of Te Papa filled the Soundings Theatre on 11 November for an eagerly awaited talk on Revolutionary Dress. It was the fifth in Peter…
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At the end of Garrett St we climbed the ubiquitous concrete staircase to the Hopkinson Mossman Gallery to visit their current Bill Culbert exhibition, Desk Lamp, Crash, 1998/2018. A very special…
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A special moment for Friends of Te Papa during a behind-the-scenes experience of the museum’s botanical collections was taking a close look at the very first specimens of silver fern,…
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