Conservation Week: Behind the scenes with botany tours
Join us at Te Papa for Conservation Week – Te Wiki Tiaki Ao Tūroa and go behind the scenes to view our Botany Collections.
Tue 2 Sep 2025, 11.30am–12.30pm
Thu 4 Sep 2025, 3.30pm–4.30pm
Meet at the Information Desk, Level 2
Free – but booking is necessary (now fully booked)
Email PublicProgrammes to be put on the waiting list.
These tours are now fully booked.
Email PublicProgrammes to be put on the waiting list.
Come behind the scenes and visit the Te Papa Botany collection, which houses more than 300,000 plant specimens collected in Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas.
Learn how we store and take care of these valuable collections, and the research they support, including the very first plants collected by the European naturalists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander over 250 years ago.
There are two tours available:
Tue 2 Sep: 11.30–12.30pm (fully booked)
Thu 4 Sep: 3.30–4.30pm (fully booked)
Places are strictly limited and must be pre-booked.
Nancy Adams Seaweed Festival Tour 2025. Photo by Carlos Lehnebach. Te Papa (258894)