2017 media releases

26 June 2017 – Melbourne Museum is feeling the buzz as it opens the doors to Te Papa exhibition Bug Lab – the blockbuster science exhibition created by Te Papa and Weta Workshop.

26 June 2017 – Te Papa’s new innovative learning lab, Hīnātore, is hosting a school holiday learning programme during the July holidays that will see kids creating their own claymation movies, inventing a new musical instrument, building worlds in virtual reality, and developing a game from scratch.

16 June 2017 – Secondary art and social sciences students can explore contemporary New Zealand Māori artist Lisa Reihana’s work through a new digital learning resource.

16 June 2017 – The findings of the recently published Use of radar detectors to track attendance of albatrosses at fishing vessels offers scientists a new way of looking at fisheries risk to seabirds.

12 June 2017 – Gisborne iwi Rongowhakaata was welcomed onto Rongomaraeroa marae yesterday.

7 June 2017 – Children’s book author and spider expert Simon Pollard has been nominated in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.

2 June 2017 – How do you build an art gallery inside a museum that’s still open to the public?

30 May 2017 – New Zealand’s unparalleled legacy of success on the rugby field is being explored in a new exhibition at Te Papa opening on June 2.

29 May 2017 – Today the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa will hold a pōwhiri to mark the return home of 59 Māori and Moriori ancestral remains from the United Kingdom and Europe.

22 May 2017 – Manchester Museum, part of the University of Manchester, and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa are pleased to announce that the repatriation of a Moriori jawbone will take place today.

19 May 2017 – An exhibition of more than 200 pounamu treasures opens in Paris on May 22nd showcasing some precious pieces of Aotearoa in the heart of the French capital.

19 May, 2017 – The Te Pahi medal, given to the Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Awa chief, Te Pahi, by the Governor of New South Wales, Phillip Gidley King, is on display at Te Papa.

18 May 2017 – Te Papa’s innovation hub Mahuki is calling for entrepreneurs to help cultural institutions in New Zealand and around the globe tell their stories of sporting identity.

18 May 2017 – The Ubersee Museum Bremen Germany and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa are pleased 44 Moriori and Māori ancestral remains are returning to Aotearoa New Zealand with the support of the City of Bremen.

17 May 2017 – Whānau, kai, storytelling and learning will feature in Matariki Rising, a 10-day festival which kicks off with an iconic public event on the waterfront and culminates in the popular Kaumātua Kapa Haka performance.

15 May 2017 – The Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa are pleased three Māori ancestral remains are returning to Aotearoa New Zealand with the support of the Swedish Government.

11 May 2017 – Te Papa Chief Executive Rick Ellis will today sign an agreement that will see Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa join forces with neighbouring Circa Theatre.

27 April 2017 – Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Florida State University and Creative Program Manager at Walt Disney's Imagineering, Mk Haley, will be delivering a series of talks hosted by Mahuki, Te Papa’s innovation hub.

18 April 2017 – An emotional Sir Peter Snell said today that gifting objects to Te Papa was an ‘amazing’ experience that helped ‘ease the guilt’ the sporting legend has felt for basing himself overseas.

13 April 2017 – 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.

11 April 2017 – Te Papa’s spectacular science exhibition about the genius of bugs closes after a hugely successful four month season, on Easter Monday, 17 April.

4 April 2017 – Sporting legend Sir Peter Snell has confirmed he will donate 14 items from his personal collection to Te Papa.

30 March 2017 – Build and fly a Lego drone, create a musical instrument and record a musical track or fly around with friends in a virtual world during Te Papa’s school holiday programme.

29 March 2017 – Te Papa launches the 2017 programme for Mahuki, the museum’s innovation hub, on Monday 10 April.

16 March 2017 – Te Papa Talks: Virtual Realities is a four-day public programme of events which will see experts from Australia and New Zealand host talks, workshops, and demonstrations of the ways virtual and augmented reality is changing our world.

13 March 2017 – 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.

13 March 2017 – Te Papa has transformed its learning programmes and space, creating Hīnātore, a new learning lab.

6 March 2017 – On 7 March 2017 Te Papa and the Italian Embassy in New Zealand will host the Capsula Mundi Project at Te Papa in the framework of the Italian Design Day.

21 February 2017 – Wellingtonians and visitors to the capital have just a few more weeks to explore the taonga of Ngāti Toa Rangatira through Te Papa’s Whiti Te Rā! The story of Ngāti Toa Rangatira Exhibition, which closes to the public on March 17.

8 February 2017 – Tickets are selling fast for the first ever drone race held at a national museum.