Te Papa is celebrating 150 years since the founding of the Colonial Museum in 1865, which evolved into today’s Te Papa. On December 8th 1865, the Colonial Museum was founded in Wellington by scientist ...

For Melissa Firth, deploying a lot of ‘firsts’ is just one of the upsides of taking on the inaugural chief digital officer post at Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand. When she joined Te Papa ...

Te Papa's well known earthquake exhibition is to be replaced in a shake-up at the museum. Exhibitions such as Awesome Forces, Mountains to Sea and Passports are to be replaced. Te Papa chief executive ...

Te Papa is marking 20 years in existence and major changes are on the way. The national museum, on Wellington's waterfront, has had nearly 30 million visitors through its front door since opening on ...

New Zealand’s ancient bowerbird was smaller and more slender than the species living in Australia and New Guinea today. Great penguins once lived in much warmer waters, but then retreated to the ...

Hundreds of teddies have been abandoned, thousands of children lost and found, and tens of thousands of lightbulbs have been changed in the 20 years since Te Papa was opened. Today marks the 20th ...

Candles are lit and placed in the water to remember lost loved ones. Photo / Kate Whitley, Te Papa. Te Papa museum is calling for Matariki to be celebrated by all Kiwis as an indigenous event of ...

On the morning of June 21, the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History voluntarily transferred the remains of seven Māori and one Moriori tūpuna, or ancestors, to representatives from the Museum of New ...

From Sir Ashley Bloomfield high tea and vintage Colossal Squid masks to quirky museum treasures, Te Papa Foundation has unveiled the most extensive fundraising auction in its history. Running from 28 ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...