Te Papa has secured hosting rights as the only New Zealand venue to showcase a new dinosaur exhibition from The Paleontological Museum Egidio Feruglio.
Te Papa has marked its 25th anniversary with a new strategy comprising Māori storytelling, human relationships and the environment as its three core priorities.
Te Papa’s new director of museum and commercial services on the priorities ahead.
Te Papa has spent $627,000 on the acquisition of two paintings by New Zealand artists from the Bank of New Zealand’s art collection.
Te Papa Tongarewa will host a pre-dawn hautapu and nationwide broadcast on Friday to mark the Matariki public holiday on Friday.
Te Papa Venues and Tākina, Wellington’s new convention and exhibition centre opening in mid-2023, has officially beguns operating under one brand, Tākina Events.
Visits to The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa reached 894,292 in the year to June 2021, down 18.7% from 1.1 million in the previous 12 months.
More attractions require visitors and staff be fully vaccinated against Covid.
Wellington City Council’s new Tākina Convention and Exhibition Centre will be jointly operated by Te Papa, in a move that may see the facility become a spillover venue for the national museum.
Switching to a domestic audience has been challenging but positive learning curve for the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Te Papa is expected to open following deep cleaning last week after the Australian Covid case visit.
Main foyer to be converted into marae-style cinema.
Visits to Te Papa Museum reached 1.1 million in the year to June 2020, a 28% decrease on 2019.
The forecast assumed ongoing impacts related to the crisis would reduce international and domestic visitors.
Te Papa intends to open within two weeks of the country’s move to alert level two.
Te Papa will closed to the public with the decision to be reviewed in two weeks.
The first major surrealist exhibition in New Zealand in just under 50 years, Dalí and the Surrealists: Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen exhibit, will be held at Te Papa next summer.
Te Papa has apologised to people who felt the museum had misrepresented the agriculture sector in a display showing dirty water, supposedly from a farm stream.
The Wonderland exhibition is now open for the summer season at Te Papa in Wellington.
Tours, cruise visitors and events helped boost FY19 income, says the museum.
The 2,300-year-old Terracotta Warriors are coming to Wellington this summer in a $2.6m exhibition at Te Papa.
Skeleton horses and killer bunnies may not be traditional learning tools, but a new mod for the computer game Minecraft is using them to teach important lessons about earthquake safety.
As part of Te Papa’s renewal of its permanent exhibitions, the natural history spaces on Level 2 of the national museum will close after Easter for redevelopment.
The new $8.4 million art gallery spans two levels of the museum and is part of a major renewal of all Te Papa’s exhibition spaces.
International Women’s Day marks the launch of the year-long Suffrage 125 commemorations.
After a dawn ceremony and huge anticipation, at midday on February 14, 1998, yachtsman Sir Peter Blake led two children through the doors of Te Papa Tongarewa The Museum of New Zealand, on Wellington’s waterfront.
Eight entrepreneurial teams from Te Papa’s Mahuki technology incubator unveiled business propositions which provide digital solutions to challenges faced by cultural organisations worldwide.
The major new exhibition showcases the dramatic stories, histories, treasured taonga and the exceptional artistry of the Gisborne iwi.
The national museum of New Zealand, Te Papa, has been named one of the top 25 museums in the world according to TripAdvisor.
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More than 1.3 million visitors of all ages have explored Te Papa’s Gallipoli: The scale of our war in the two years since it opened.
Te Papa’s $5m summer exhibition, Bug Lab, has had over 130,000 visitors across its four-month duration.
Air New Zealand’s 75th anniversary exhibition has welcomed the one millionth visitor through its three-year, nationwide tour.
Geraint Martin has been appointed as the new chief executive of Te Papa. Mr Martin is currently the CEO of Counties Manukau District Health Board.