#tepapa — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #tepapa, aggregated by home.social.
-
The illuminating work of George Gibbs and his shimmering micro moths.
George W. Gibbs gifted Te Papa an important part of his private research collection – including over 2,000 specimens of micro moths (Micropterigidae) from New Zealand and New Caledonia. So, what is the story behind the collector and his curious critters?
https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2026/09/29/the-illuminating-work-of-george-gibbs-and-his-shimmering-micro-moths/
#globalmuseum #museums #moths #TePapa -
The illuminating work of George Gibbs and his shimmering micro moths.
George W. Gibbs gifted Te Papa an important part of his private research collection – including over 2,000 specimens of micro moths (Micropterigidae) from New Zealand and New Caledonia. So, what is the story behind the collector and his curious critters?
https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2026/09/29/the-illuminating-work-of-george-gibbs-and-his-shimmering-micro-moths/
#globalmuseum #museums #moths #TePapa -
The illuminating work of George Gibbs and his shimmering micro moths.
George W. Gibbs gifted Te Papa an important part of his private research collection – including over 2,000 specimens of micro moths (Micropterigidae) from New Zealand and New Caledonia. So, what is the story behind the collector and his curious critters?
https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2026/09/29/the-illuminating-work-of-george-gibbs-and-his-shimmering-micro-moths/
#globalmuseum #museums #moths #TePapa -
The illuminating work of George Gibbs and his shimmering micro moths.
George W. Gibbs gifted Te Papa an important part of his private research collection – including over 2,000 specimens of micro moths (Micropterigidae) from New Zealand and New Caledonia. So, what is the story behind the collector and his curious critters?
https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2026/09/29/the-illuminating-work-of-george-gibbs-and-his-shimmering-micro-moths/
#globalmuseum #museums #moths #TePapa -
The illuminating work of George Gibbs and his shimmering micro moths.
George W. Gibbs gifted Te Papa an important part of his private research collection – including over 2,000 specimens of micro moths (Micropterigidae) from New Zealand and New Caledonia. So, what is the story behind the collector and his curious critters?
https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2026/09/29/the-illuminating-work-of-george-gibbs-and-his-shimmering-micro-moths/
#globalmuseum #museums #moths #TePapa -
Hydrocotyle moschata G.Forst., collected 22 November 1894, Matamata Co., Waikato R., Te Waotu [Waotu]., New Zealand. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP054688/A)
-
Hydrocotyle moschata G.Forst., collected 22 November 1894, Matamata Co., Waikato R., Te Waotu [Waotu]., New Zealand. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP054688/A)
-
Hydrocotyle moschata G.Forst., collected 22 November 1894, Matamata Co., Waikato R., Te Waotu [Waotu]., New Zealand. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP054688/A)
-
Hydrocotyle moschata G.Forst., collected 22 November 1894, Matamata Co., Waikato R., Te Waotu [Waotu]., New Zealand. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP054688/A)
-
Parsley fern, Botrychium australe R.Br., collected March 1915, Near Putaruru, New Zealand. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (P004508)
-
Parsley fern, Botrychium australe R.Br., collected March 1915, Near Putaruru, New Zealand. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (P004508)
-
Parsley fern, Botrychium australe R.Br., collected March 1915, Near Putaruru, New Zealand. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (P004508)
-
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)
-
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)
-
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)
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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)
-
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)
-
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)
-
Time exposure of sunset or sunrise, 21.June 1931, Otago, maker unknown. Purchased 1991. Te Papa (A.009918)
-
Time exposure of sunset or sunrise, 21.June 1931, Otago, maker unknown. Purchased 1991. Te Papa (A.009918)
-
Time exposure of sunset or sunrise, 21.June 1931, Otago, maker unknown. Purchased 1991. Te Papa (A.009918)
-
Time exposure of sunset or sunrise, 21.June 1931, Otago, maker unknown. Purchased 1991. Te Papa (A.009918)
-
Time exposure of sunset or sunrise, 21.June 1931, Otago, maker unknown. Purchased 1991. Te Papa (A.009918)
-
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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)
-
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)
-
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)
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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)
-
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)
-
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)
-
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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)
-
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)
-
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)
-
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)
-
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)
-
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)