Te Papa
Dr Dean Peterson - Te Taiao Nature exhibition to open
Illinois-born Dr Dean Peterson joined Te Papa in 2016 and has spent three years developing the museum's largest redevelopment since it opened - Te Taiao Nature exhibition space, which will be open to… Audio
Gallipoli exhibition at Te Papa extended for another 3 years due to demand
In the three years since Te Papa's Gallipoli exhibition opened the crowds have kept coming - so it will stay on.
Te Papa defends natural history team restructure
Te Papa is defending its decision to make leading scientists redundant as necessary to keep up with the rapidly changing fields of biodiversity and biosecurity. Audio
Te Papa's identity
Te Papa has indicated it's getting rid of two of its scientists. Bruce Marshall is a mollusc expert and Andrew Stewart is a fish expert. They have 80 years combined experience. There's been an outcry… Audio
Te Papa to make world renowned experts redundant - insider
Te Papa museum will be worse off if it makes mollusc expert Bruce Marshall and fish expert Andrew Stewart redundant.
Just Say Nope: Johanna and Brittany Cosgrove
Johanna and Brittany Cosgrove's teenage years went very differently. Johanna's were pretty good, leading her to become a budding (and now award-winning) actress. Brittany says she "went off the rails"… Audio, Gallery
Does Te Papa's new-look restructure answer its critics?
After months of uncertainty and disquiet in the science community Te Papa's restructure is out. Five roles in all have been disestablished across Te Papa, of which two are currently vacant. The… Audio
Rebecca Rice on the significance of the Terracotta Warriors
Dr Rebecca Rice explains the significance of The Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of Immortality exhibition that opens at Te Papa on 15 December. The Terracotta Warriors are 2,300 year old artworks of… Audio, Gallery
Fighting the Same Fight
Feminised or gendered roles in the workforce were carved out in our past and still impact on the lives of women in the workplace today. Find out more in Episode 8 of Beyond Kate. Audio
Te Papa influencing Australian museums
South Australia is taking cues from Te Papa, using its bicultural model as a guide in turning the region's museum into a national Aboriginal art gallery. Audio
Women Should Be Seen and Heard
Is the arts a place where women have equal opportunity? And if not, why not? That's the big question at hand in Episode Six of RNZ podcast, Beyond Kate. Audio
Women Caught Between Two Worlds
Being a woman of colour in a predominantly white society brings with it a complex set of rules and expectations that are often not spoken about. Episode Four of Beyond Kate looks at some of the Maori… Audio
Rights and Ownership Over the Female Body
From crotch-less bloomers and women’s fashion in the late 19th century to contraception, menstruation and abortion. Episode Four of Beyond Kate explores the politics and double standards around the… Audio
Mark Stocker – A survey of Te Papa’s National Art Collection
New Zealand art history in 2018 - what's included and what's excluded? Photography is now in it seems, but ceramics not; Contemporary Maori art - in - but traditional Maori arts? Still out. That's at… Audio, Gallery
Get it to Te Papa and The 2000s
Tamar Munch reviews a new local show, Get it to Te Papa - The Spinoff's televised quest to get under-appreciated Kiwi treasures into the national museum. She''ll also preview The 2000s, a new series… Audio
Dick Frizzell: 'I'd rather be a bad painter than a non painter'
In 1998, painters Dick Frizzell and Karl Maughan staged a joint sell-out show at Auckland's Gow Langsford Gallery called Landscapes. Now, 20 years on, for Auckland Art Week, Frizzell and Maughan have… Audio
Peter McNeil: Pretty Gentlemen
If you've heard the song Yankee Doodle, you've heard "stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni". But what was macaroni in that context? Peter McNeil's book "Pretty Gentlemen - Macaroni Men… Audio
China's ancient warrior sculptures to go on show in Te Papa
Te Papa is spending $2.6 million to bring eight of China's ancient terracotta warriors to New Zealand.
Claire Regnault: knickerbockers on a bicycle
Claire Regnault is a senior curator at Te Papa, where she specialises in dress. She is researching and writing a history of women's fashionable dress in colonial Aotearoa New Zealand and is on the… Audio
Part of Te Papa collection stored in dirty warehouse
One of Te Papa's most important whale skeletons is being stored in a building that was dirty, and had birds, insects, and possibly rodents living in it. Experts are shocked to hear how the national… Audio
