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18 December 2014 - Air New Zealand will kick off its 75th anniversary celebrations with the launch of a special exhibition at the country’s national museum Te Papa in Wellington tonight.
8 December 2014 - Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Art Gallery in West Auckland will conclude Te Papa’s touring exhibition Black Rainbow by two of New Zealand’s leading artists.
2 December 2014 - The biggest, baddest orc of all is coming to Te Papa! Azog™ the Defiler will be on display at the national museum from tomorrow and visitors are invited to come snap a selfie with the huge and pale Gundabad Orc.
1 December 2014 - The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and the American Museum of Natural History are pleased to announce the return of 107 Māori and Moriori ancestral remains to New Zealand.
20 November 2014 - Art from Te Papa’s collection by two of New Zealand’s greatest artists goes on display at Waikato Museum on Saturday.
3 November 2014 - More than forty tukutuku panels will be shipped to New York this month as they start their journey from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa to the United Nations Headquarters where they will be permanently installed.
10 November 2014 - The Board and Chairman of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa are pleased to announce the appointment of Rick Ellis as the new Chief Executive for the museum.
28 November 2014 - Te Papa’s annual report, tabled in Parliament, shows the national museum is in sound shape heading into a busy 2015, Te Papa’s Board Chair Evan Williams says.
30 October 2014 - The children of Central Otago’s Tarras School will be in Wellington tomorrow to see their favourite Southern rogue, Shrek the sheep, make his debut at the National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
13 October 2014 – It is with great sadness that Te Papa acknowledges the death of Professor Jonathan Mane-Wheoki (CNZM), the national museum’s Head of Arts & Visual Culture.
27 June 2014 - The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is delighted by the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage’s appointment of Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister, to its Board.
23 September 2014 - Cutting edge technology has been combined with the latest research for Tyrannosaurs - Meet the Family; opening Saturday 27 September 2014 at Te Papa.
4 September 2014 - Scientists studying invertebrates will have a rare chance to examine a colossal squid, at Te Papa on Tuesday 16 September 2014.
27 August 2014 - Peter McLeavey: The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer, by Jill Trevelyan, last night won Book of the Year as well as the top award for non-fiction, in the 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards.
9 June 2014 - A dramatic dawn ceremony at Te Papa will open the exhibition Whiti Te Rā! The Story of Ngāti Toa Rangatira on 14 June 2014, sharing the iwi’s stories and its vision for the future on the national stage.
22 August 2014 - Te Papa wholeheartedly congratulates Professor Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Head of Arts & Visual Culture at New Zealand’s national museum, who received the Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) during an investiture ceremony at Government House in Auckland this week.
25 July 2014 - Peter McLeavey: The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer from New Zealand’s unique museum publisher, Te Papa Press, has been nominated in the non-fiction category of the 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards.
1 July 2014 - Visitors to Te Papa will have a rare opportunity to experience a unique exhibition of tukutuku panels reflecting New Zealand stories, values and traditions, before they are installed at the United Nations’ Headquarters in New York.
6 June 2014 - New Zealand Birds Online has celebrated its first anniversary! In the twelve months since the site went live, 264,000 have visited to learn more about Aotearoa’s 461 bird species, and to identify those they’ve spotted frolicking in our gardens, beaches, mountains and forests.
5 June 2014 - For the first time, Wellington's galleries and museums work together to bring you nearly 100 events to celebrate Matariki!
5 June 2014 - Te Papa and New Zealand’s Human Rights Commission will work together to promote human dignity and rights awareness.
3 June 2014 - Te Papa has made 30,000 high quality, high resolution images available for free download from its Collections Online website, collections.tepapa.govt.nz,as part of its commitment to providing open access licensing to images of the national collections.
3 June 2014 - Te Papa congratulates Professor Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Head of Arts & Visual Culture at New Zealand’s national museum, on his appointment as Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM).
1 May 2014 - The Ministry for Culture and Heritage is very pleased to announce that Michael Houlihan has been appointed to the position of Special Adviser on Military Heritage, for the next twelve months.
16 April 2014 - The Te Pahi silver medal will return to New Zealand after a successful joint bid by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira overnight.
18 March 2014 - Centuries-old imperial treasures rarely seen outside of China, and a glimpse into the life of a unique modern artist with an uncompromising vision, are showcased in two extraordinary exhibitions opening only at Te Papa.
26 February 2014 - Representatives from Tainui, one of New Zealand’s largest tribal groupings, will gather at Te Papa to celebrate the success of their exhibition Tai timu, tai pari, Tainui: Journey of a people, during a special closing ceremony this Sunday (2 March 2014).
28 Jan 2014 - Te Papa presents the 2014 Treaty Debates Series: Water is our business.
