Māori

• Rongowhakaata: Borrowing from iwi to build the exhibition
• Timeline: The Te Pahi Medal
• Tippahee: A documentary about the Te Pahi medal
• A silver slice of Māori history: the Te Pahi medal
• The significance of the silver fern
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Art

Explore the work of artists such as Tiffany Singh, Simon Denny, Colin McCahon, and Rita Angus through videos, podcasts, and in-depth articles.

• ‘A mix of control and accident’ – Helen Calder in her own words
• Watch: Tūrangawaewae portrait wall timelapse
• Pacific Sisters: Fashion Activists Spotify playlist
• Lisa Walker, a career in pictures
• Space, body, and movement: An interview with BodyCartography Project’s Olive Bieringa
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Science

• Colossal squid
• The biting truth about white-tailed spiders
• Ancient colossal penguin bones discovered in Otago
• Martinborough’s cave of bones: How thousands of flightless birds met their end
• Cross-pollination experiments with one of New Zealand’s rarest trees
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History

• Watch: Celebrating 20 years of Our Place in numbers
• Ours: A podcast of twenty Te Papa objects
• Listen: Professor Jay Winter on photographing the Great War
• Before the All Blacks: The New Zealand ‘Natives’
• Saving food, saving lives: WW1 food posters
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Behind the scenes

• Conserving Rongowhakaata’s fragile ‘Iron Man’
• Cigarette packets and chocolate boxes: How we used to store our collections
• ‘It’s the objects that sparkle, not me’: A day in the life of an art collection manager
• Putting the pieces back together after the earthquake
• The heaviest, smallest, oldest, and smelliest books in our library
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Pacific

• A trip to remote Tokelau: Life a few metres above sea level
• Collecting the spirit of Hawai‘i through aloha shirts
• George Crummer: Picturing the Cook Islands
• Spotlight on The Yandall Sisters, Samoan doo-wop superstars
• Cricket – Pacific style
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