#tepapa — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #tepapa, aggregated by home.social.
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Parsley fern, Botrychium australe R.Br., collected March 1915, Near Putaruru, New Zealand. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (P004508)
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Mercury bay weed, Dichondra repens J.R.Forst. & G.Forst., collected 4 November 1889, Miramar., New Zealand. Acquisition details/history unknown. Found in collection, 2016-2017. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP043440)
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Woodside : 1926-1927, 1926-1927, Levin, by Leslie Adkin. Gift of G. L. Adkin family estate, 1964. Te Papa (B.022763)
Nancy Adkin standing on driveway - she is wearing bowler hat and holding a walking stick
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Carrots on ice: Speargrasses – New Zealand’s spiky survivors.
Speargrasses are some of New Zealand’s most distinctive plants and an iconic feature of many of the South Island’s non-forested habitats, especially when flowering
https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2026/07/07/carrots-on-ice-speargrasses-new-zealands-spiky-survivors/ #globalmuseum #museums #TePapa #flora -
Abrotanella inconspicua Hook.f., collected Black Peak, New Zealand. Acquisition details/history unknown. Found in collection, 2020-2021. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP044587)
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Time exposure of sunset or sunrise, 21.June 1931, Otago, maker unknown. Purchased 1991. Te Papa (A.009918)
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Life on Pukenui Anchor Island as volunteer cook for the Kākāpō Recovery team.
For two weeks in late March and early April 2026, Te Papa's Botany Curator Heidi Meudt took some time off botany work to be a Department of Conservation volunteer for birds – specifically, a volunteer cook for the Kākāpō Recovery team
https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2026/06/11/life-on-pukenui-anchor-island-as-volunteer-cook-for-the-kakapo-recovery-team/ #globalmuseum #birds #museums #TePapa -
Syzygium macranthum Brongn. & Gris, collected 23 November 1982, Barrage de Yate [Yate dam], New Caledonia. Gift of Victoria University of Wellington, 2011. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP101703)
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Painting like the nineteenth-century ‘globe-trotteress’ Constance Gordon-Cumming.
In 2025, Te Papa acquired four watercolours by the nineteenth-century British artist Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming (1837–1924).
Over the summer, art history lecturer Dr Victoria Munn and student and artist, Catherine Shone, brought new light to bear on Gordon-Cumming’s artistic practice and process.
https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2026/05/19/painting-like-the-nineteenth-century-globe-trotteress-constance-gordon-cumming/ #globalmuseum #museums #art #TePapa
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Gentianella, collected 19 March 1920, Old Man Range, New Zealand. Acquisition details/history unknown. Found in collection, 2014-2015. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP059538)
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Savings bank money box, late 1960s, New Zealand, by Bank of New Zealand, Plastic Products. Gift of Ted Piner, 2016. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Te Papa (GH024774)
This plastic money box was made by the Bank of New Zealand after New Zealand trading banks gained governmental approval in October 1964 to each have their own private savings banks. This particular money box was made after decimal currency was introduced in July 1967.
Money boxes like this example were given to customers, often children, to encourage saving. The shape of this one evokes a bag full of coins. -
Epilobium alsinoides subsp. atriplicifolium (A.Cunn.) P.H.Raven & Engelhorn, collected 21 December 1969, Nelson, Dun Mountain, on summit., New Zealand. Gift of Victoria University of Wellington, 2011. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP093138)
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Thelymitra cyanea (Lindl.) Benth., collected January 1968, Moanatuatua Bog, New Zealand. Acquisition details/history unknown. Found in collection, date unknown. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP067576/A)
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Landoltia punctata (G.Mey.) Les & D.J.Crawford, collected 23 August 1978, Kimberley., Australia. Acquisition details/history unknown. Found in collection, 2021-2022. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP112765)
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Smith's tree fern, Cyathea smithii Hook.f., collected 9 October 2015, Hunters Hills, Mount Nimrod Scenic Reserve., New Zealand. Field Collection 2015. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (P027551/D)
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Thinking how beautiful Lepidoptera eggs are. #HappyEaster
Image by George Vernon Hudson, Public Domain via #WikiCommons & #TePapa https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MA_I437590_TePapa_Frontispiece-The-butterflies_full.jpg -
Gifts to the nation: The National Art Collection at Te Papa.
The Colonial Museum was founded in Wellington in 1865. Its first director, the geologist James Hector, was not particularly interested in forming an art collection – although the museum did acquire and commission many wonderful artworks as part of its scientific research
https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2026/03/13/gifts-to-the-nation-the-national-art-collection-at-te-papa/ #globalmuseum #museums #art #TePapa
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Humanities technician Cassandra Bahr has been working in the Collected Archives at #TePapa, cataloguing and rehousing papers from people connected to Te Papa’s collecting areas. Here, she highlights the archives of scientific illustrator and orchid specialist Bruce Irwin (1921–2012).
https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2026/02/20/an-eye-for-detail-the-collected-archives-of-bruce-irwin/ #globalmuseum #plants #museums -
Wandering around the Te Papa Museum in Wellington.
#travel #newzealand #wellington #tepapa #museum -
Bug of the Year 2026 and why you should vote for Apsona, the sapphire spider fly.
Bug of the Year was created to celebrate the spectacular and often overlooked invertebrates of New Zealand. Te Papa, Collection Technician Invertebrates Shaun Thomson talks about one of this year’s nominees – a tiny fly with a jewel-like shimmer and a life cycle that borders on the unbelievable.
https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2026/01/27/bug-of-the-year-2026-and-why-you-should-vote-for-apsona-the-sapphire-spider-fly/ #globalmuseum #insects #TePapa #museums
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Te Papa has some of NZ’s greatest artworks, so why won’t our national museum let us see them?
Imagine going to the National Gallery in London and not seeing anything by Turner, Constable or Gainsborough.
The names below are those of New... Zealand artists whose paintings are listed on the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa’s website but which are not on display.https://archive.ph/EnuKm #globalmuseum #TePapa #museums #art
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Caring for the Te Papa palaeontology collection
How the fossils are cared for, so they are available for research and display, both now and long into the future.
https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2026/01/16/palaeo-introductions-3-caring-for-the-palaeontology-collection/ #globalmuseum #museums #TePapa #collections #fossils
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Q&A: Dr Thom Linley, Curator of Fishes at Te Papa.
Dr Thom Linley is the Curator of Fishes at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
https://www.aa.co.nz/membership/aa-directions/features/thom-linley-te-papa-curator-interview/ #globalmuseum #museums #TePapa #fish #Ichthyology
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Keeping Te Papa's collections data in good health.
Collections Data Manager Gareth Watkins details how regular, automated data checks are helping teams strengthen the quality, consistency, and discoverability of our collections – and how Python and AI tools are making that work faster and smarter.
https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2025/10/20/keeping-our-collections-data-in-good-health/ #globalmuseum #museums #collections #TePapa -
Tony Whitaker, a renowned herpetologist donated his collection of specimens to Te Papa.
Anthony Whitaker took thousands of photos of lizards, and many are excellent photos in their own right as well as useful scientifically
https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2025/10/14/kiore-whit-the-collected-archives-of-tony-whitaker/ #globalmuseum #TePapa #lizards #museums -
Introducing Koekotroides, a new genus of landhopper with six new species.
Landhoppers are tiny, jumping crustaceans that live in the leaf litter on the forest floor. Northland entomologist Olly Ball, University College Cork’s amphipod expert Alan Myers, and #TePapa geneticist Lara Shepherd recently revealed that New Zealand’s landhoppers are far more diverse than previously thought, with many new species hiding right under our feet
https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2025/10/02/introducing-koekotroides-a-new-genus-of-landhopper-with-six-new-species/ #globalmuseum #museums