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Formula One™: The Great Design Race
On now!: Thrilling, seductive, and addictive, Formula One is among the world’s most popular sports. This exhibition traces the development of the Formula One racing car from the 1950s to the 2000s – one of the great design stories of our time. Follow the incredible technology, see iconic cars, and discover New Zealand’s Formula One heroes.
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New & Short-term Exhibitions
Colossal Squid: Come in to Te Papa and see the colossal squid; it's 4.2 metres long and weighing nearly half a tonne. Visit www.tepapa.govt.nz/squid to build your own squid, read the Captains Blog or learn more.
OurSpace: Te Papa's spectacular new multimedia adventure. Take the plunge on the Deep Ride to a virtual unserdea volcano, and buckle into the High Ride for the wildest New Zealand tour ever.
Visit www.ourspace.tepapa.com to contribute images and clips and become part of the Our Space community.
: Find out more about What's On at Te Papa.
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Membership offers special opportunities to engage with Te papa, discounts at the Te Papa Store, and a special programme of events.
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Tena Rawa koutou, I am making enquires about your kaumatua kapahaka, I am a teacher in Tamaki Makaurau, I have a request to te Roopu te hoko whitu atū we are doing a cd at our kura and would like to sing one of Tuini Ngawai's waiata 'E Te Iwi E' we would like to add this waiata to the many waiata we have, is it possibl...e that we could get ask permission to use this waiata please. Tena koa whakahoki korero mai.Read More
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Join William McAloon, Curator Historical New Zealand Art and editor of Art at Te Papa, for an informal talk about what was involved in bringing together this major publication.
Friends $10, public $15 (a cash bar will be available). Registration is essential. Please call (04) 381 7051.
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Join now and pay ou...r pro rata half year membership rates.
Your membership will offer you discounts in Te Papa Stores and cafes. You will have unique opportunities to engage with Te Papa and access to a special programme of events. Look for Friends of Te Papa on the website or call us on (04) 381 7051 for information about joining.
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Friends $10, public $15 (a cash bar will be available). Registration is essential. Please call (04) 381 7051.
Special offer!
Join now and pay ou...r pro rata half year membership rates.
Your membership will offer you discounts in Te Papa Stores and cafes. You will have unique opportunities to engage with Te Papa and access to a special programme of events. Look for Friends of Te Papa on the website or call us on (04) 381 7051 for information about joining.
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New Zealand at the Venice Biennale 2009 comes to Te Papa in February 2010 http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/WhatsOn/exhibi
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Te Papa brings you fresh and exciting artworks direct from the prestigious Venice Biennale 2009. Judy Millar's Giraffe-Bottle-Gun and Francis Upritchard's Save Yourself are powerful new works by two of New Zealand’s finest contemporary artists.
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You are invited to the Exclusive Christmas Shopping Night at Te Papa Store and Te Papa Kids' Store!
Location:Te Papa Store
Time:6:00PM Wednesday, November 4th
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Looking forward to seeing the four large plinths (aka Giant blobs)!
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The Trust's major continuing project is to place a series of temporary sculptures on the four large plinths located between the national museum Te Papa and the Circa Theatre. These mark the boundary between the Te Papa forecourt and Wellington Waterfront, and have a very high pedestrian count and visibility. They make ...a superb site for contemporary sculpture. Each of the plinths, large concrete cubes covered in bluestone, are 2m square. The project operates to select and install a new work on or around the four plinths every two years, with an opening as a part of the International Festival of the Arts which takes place in Wellington over three weeks in February and March in even number years (2010, 2012 etc). The selected work stays on the plinths for up to 22 months, then being removed to make way for its successor. The first of the Four Plinths sculptures is Green Islands by Regan Gentry. It was installed before the 2008 International Festival of the Arts and will remain in place until early 2010. It has been extremely popular with many Wellingtonians who are keen that a site can be found for the pieces to remain in public view in Wellington. The work is the result of Gentry's first visit to the site when he was struck by the absence of natural vegetation. With each plinth providing an island for “greenery” Gentry has ironically introduced plants to the area, creating replica trees and other flora commonly found around Wellington out of the ever-popular number 8 fencing wire. The second of the Four Plinths Sculptures is 'Untitled' by Peter Trevelyan. A set of bulbous but flaccid organic forms constructed from hinged, articulated, mirrored equilateral triangles. Driven by the slow motion of linear actuators programmed to work at differing speeds and intervals, these are less objects than an ever-changing translation of their environment. These mobile boundaries open a dialogue between the organic and the artificial, mirroring the development of the harbour and central Wellington area. You can see an Artists rendition of these works in our pics.Read More
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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa New blog post: F1 exhibition crosses the finish line but whats next? http://ow.ly/ys2T
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Congratulations to Steven and Caron Bowe, the winner of the luxury Wellington weekend escape for two. Thanks go to Martin Bosley’s, Armstrong Prestige and Ohtel Boutique Hotel for providing the prize.
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Te Papa should be bidding for this!
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Te Papa Store is extending a special invitation to all you Facebook fans and Twitter followers of Te Papa. You are invited to the Exclusive Christmas Shopping Night at Te Papa Store and Te Papa Kids' Store!
Join our valued suppliers’ in-store and take advantage of some exclusive offers.
- 20% discount store-wide*
- Comp...limentary glass of sparkling wine
- Chocolate tasting
- Free gift wrapping
- Packing and posting anywhere in the world (incur no GST)
RSVP by emailing tepapastore@tepapa.govt.nz by 5pm on November 4 and be in store by 7pm to be eligible to win spot prizes including a $200 gift card from Te Papa Store.
*Conditions apply. Sale discount excludes postage, gift cards and vouchers, stamps, film, phone cards, already discounted items.
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Join our valued suppliers’ in-store and take advantage of some exclusive offers.
- 20% discount store-wide*
- Comp...limentary glass of sparkling wine
- Chocolate tasting
- Free gift wrapping
- Packing and posting anywhere in the world (incur no GST)
RSVP by emailing tepapastore@tepapa.govt.nz by 5pm on November 4 and be in store by 7pm to be eligible to win spot prizes including a $200 gift card from Te Papa Store.
*Conditions apply. Sale discount excludes postage, gift cards and vouchers, stamps, film, phone cards, already discounted items.
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You are invited to the Exclusive Christmas Shopping Night at Te Papa Store and Te Papa Kids' Store!
Time:6:00PM Wednesday, November 4th
Location:Te Papa Store
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Only a few days left to enter the F1 competition to win a luxury Wellington weekend escape for two on November 6–8!
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Internationally recognised filmmakers, artists, and writers contributed to this unique film project to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Twenty-two short films inspired by the six themes of the Declaration – culture, development, dignity and justice, environment, gender, and partic...ipation – will be shown.
The afternoon begins with a 30-minute screening from Mäori filmmaker Dean Hapeta’s six-part ‘rapumentary’ Ngätahi – Know the Links, about native and marginalised peoples’ arts and activism in twenty countries. Hapeta shows part five of his series, which features interviews and music from the Palestinian cities of Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron and Nablus, Ireland’s Belfast and Derry, and Manila and Baguio in the Philippines.
Taking ‘rap’ as an acronym for ‘rhyme and percussion’, a ‘rapumentary’ is a hip-hop infused music documentary featuring spoken word performance interwoven with music.
New Zealand filmmaker Armagan Ballantyne, director of The Strength of Water, will show Lilly and Ra, her short film on the theme of gender, and is available for questions after
The afternoon concludes with a panel discussion on human rights issues in New Zealand and globally. Ballantyne and Hapeta will be joined on the panel by other guest speakers.Read More
The afternoon begins with a 30-minute screening from Mäori filmmaker Dean Hapeta’s six-part ‘rapumentary’ Ngätahi – Know the Links, about native and marginalised peoples’ arts and activism in twenty countries. Hapeta shows part five of his series, which features interviews and music from the Palestinian cities of Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron and Nablus, Ireland’s Belfast and Derry, and Manila and Baguio in the Philippines.
Taking ‘rap’ as an acronym for ‘rhyme and percussion’, a ‘rapumentary’ is a hip-hop infused music documentary featuring spoken word performance interwoven with music.
New Zealand filmmaker Armagan Ballantyne, director of The Strength of Water, will show Lilly and Ra, her short film on the theme of gender, and is available for questions after
The afternoon concludes with a panel discussion on human rights issues in New Zealand and globally. Ballantyne and Hapeta will be joined on the panel by other guest speakers.Read More
Time:12:00PM Saturday, November 14th
Location:Soundings Theatre, Level 2. Te Papa
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New exhibition for the Sculpture Terrace – 'A Garden' by Paul Cullen http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/WhatsOn/exhibi
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Paul Cullen's project takes the concept of the borrowed view, in which surrounding landscape is incorporated into a garden's design, enhancing the vista and giving a sense that the garden is larger than it is.
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Physicist Marcus Wilson explains the Large Hadron Collider and talks about whether we should be worried about a second big bang.
Proudly supported by GNS Science and the Royal Society of New Zealand, Wellington Branch.
Level 4 Espresso. Free entry.
– separating myth from reality
Time:6:30PM Thursday, November 5th
Location:Espresso Level 4. Te Papa
Suzanne Tamaki Michael Clark and Murray Taylor were awesome on the weekend! AND Ben Harford is HOT, HOT, HOT!!!
