4th July 2023 Te PapaTe Papa has secured hosting rights as the only New Zealand venue to showcase a new dinosaur exhibition from The Paleontological Museum Egidio Feruglio.
20th February 2023 Te PapaTe Papa has marked its 25th anniversary with a new strategy comprising Māori storytelling, human relationships and the environment as its three core priorities.
2nd December 2022 Tākina / Te PapaTe Papa’s new director of museum and commercial services on the priorities ahead.
19th September 2022 Art / Te PapaTe Papa has spent $627,000 on the acquisition of two paintings by New Zealand artists from the Bank of New Zealand’s art collection.
22nd June 2022 Matariki / Te PapaTe Papa Tongarewa will host a pre-dawn hautapu and nationwide broadcast on Friday to mark the Matariki public holiday on Friday.
4th April 2022 Conferences / Te PapaTe Papa Venues and Tākina, Wellington’s new convention and exhibition centre opening in mid-2023, has officially beguns operating under one brand, Tākina Events.
8th December 2021 Museums / Te PapaVisits 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.
23rd November 2021 Museums / Te PapaMore attractions require visitors and staff be fully vaccinated against Covid.
26th October 2021 Tākina / Te PapaWellington 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.
30th July 2021 Museums / Te PapaSwitching to a domestic audience has been challenging but positive learning curve for the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
28th June 2021 Museums / Te PapaTe Papa is expected to open following deep cleaning last week after the Australian Covid case visit.
22nd June 2021 Te PapaMain foyer to be converted into marae-style cinema.
9th December 2020 Museums / Te PapaVisits to Te Papa Museum reached 1.1 million in the year to June 2020, a 28% decrease on 2019.
30th July 2020 Museums / Te PapaThe forecast assumed ongoing impacts related to the crisis would reduce international and domestic visitors.
11th May 2020 Te Papa / WellingtonTe Papa intends to open within two weeks of the country’s move to alert level two.
23rd March 2020 Covid-19 / Te PapaTe Papa will closed to the public with the decision to be reviewed in two weeks.
2nd March 2020 Museums / Te PapaThe 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.
20th January 2020 Museums / Te PapaTe 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.
9th December 2019 Museums / Te PapaThe Wonderland exhibition is now open for the summer season at Te Papa in Wellington.
13th November 2019 Museums / Te PapaTours, cruise visitors and events helped boost FY19 income, says the museum.
1st August 2018 China / Te PapaThe 2,300-year-old Terracotta Warriors are coming to Wellington this summer in a $2.6m exhibition at Te Papa.
16th May 2018 Te PapaSkeleton 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.
26th March 2018 Te PapaAs 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.
8th March 2018 Te PapaInternational Women’s Day marks the launch of the year-long Suffrage 125 commemorations.
12th February 2018 Te PapaAfter 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.
22nd November 2017 Te PapaEight 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.
25th September 2017 Te PapaThe 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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18th April 2017 Te PapaMore 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.
12th April 2017 Te PapaTe Papa’s $5m summer exhibition, Bug Lab, has had over 130,000 visitors across its four-month duration.
27th March 2017 Te PapaAir New Zealand’s 75th anniversary exhibition has welcomed the one millionth visitor through its three-year, nationwide tour.
14th March 2017 Te PapaGeraint Martin has been appointed as the new chief executive of Te Papa. Mr Martin is currently the CEO of Counties Manukau District Health Board.
