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Digital Creator

Be inspired by the museum and use digital tools to collaboratively design your own artworks and creations.

  • Learning areas and strands Art, Science, Technology, History, Pacific, Māori
  • Education type Education visit
  • Duration 2 hours
  • Suitable for Years 3–13
  • Next available Available
  • Cost $6.50 per student (teachers and parent helpers go free)
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This programme can be modified to align to your classroom plan. You can choose one of the following themes:

  • Bring to Life
  • Change and Innovate
  • Museum Designer.

We will spend time in the exhibition galleries before exploring multiple creative processes in the Hīnātore Learning Lab. Our Educators will work with you to select the most appropriate digital tools for your students and to share the creations for use back at school.

Digital tools and processes available include: virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D design, robotics, block coding, image manipulation, stop motion animation, and green screen filming.


  • A digital vaka (canoe) is superimposed onto a table

    AR vaka created by Donald James using Tinkercad. Photo by Donald James. Te Papa (166315)


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    Mixed Reality Self Portrait, 2017. Te Papa


  • iPad painting

    iPad painting, 2017. Te Papa


  • Student using green screen technology to put herself in a painting

    Using green screen technology to put yourself in Te Papa's collections, 2017. Te Papa


  • A woman and two young girls sit at a desk, coding on computers

    Coding for Everyone event in Hīnātore | Learning Lab, 2017. Photo by Eleanor Holland. Te Papa (115888)


  • VR drawing

    VR drawing, 2017. Te Papa


  • VR drawing

    VR drawing, 2017. Te Papa


  • Three young children using a tablet and robot

    Coding for Everyone event in Hīnātore | Learning Lab, 2017. Photo by Eleanor Holland. Te Papa (115908)


  • Two children play with green screen. You can see one child through the screen of a camera, acting in front of a green screen

    Te Kura o Manutuke visit, 2018. Photo by Jo Moore. Te Papa (113864)


  • A girl uses a laptop computer

    Corinna School students, Raranga Matihiko programme, 2018. Photo by Kate Whitley. Te Papa (113836)