2019 news

Two women in a painting store room look at a painting on display on a table

Major Rita Angus exhibition coming to Toi Art in 2021

Wed 4 Sep 2019

Around 70 works by one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most important 20th-century artists, Rita Angus (1908–1970), will be exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in October 2020 before coming to Wellington.

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Colin McCahon works on display: Celebrating 100 years since his birth

Fri 23 Aug 2019

Nine of Colin McCahon’s most important works are now on display in our Toi Art galleries, coinciding with the centenary of the artist’s birth.

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Yokkaichi, from the series Yomairi hakkei (Eight views of night visiting), about 1844, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Te Papa (2016-0008-36)

Issue 30 of Tuhinga, our research journal, is out

Mon 24 Jun 2019

‘Tuhinga’ is Te Papa’s annually published journal of scholarship and mātauranga. Number 30, which has just come out, is bigger and better than ever, running to eight articles and 268 pages.

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Visitor plays with a digital screen on it the words says 'Petrol cars should be banned by 2030. How do you feel about this idea?'

Have your say on pressing environmental issues in Te Taiao Nature

Thu 2 May 2019

Our new Te Taiao Nature zone will feature ‘The Current’ which will harvest visitors’ environmental concerns in a new move to build open data.

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Ground-breaking nature zone opens in May

Mon 18 Feb 2019

The biggest change since the museum opened will be unveiled to the public on 11 May 2019.

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