This Saturday at 12 noon, you can bring along a treasured object to the Marae on level 4 at Te Papa where curators and an antique dealer will look at it and tell you a bit more about it.
Or you might have a mystery item lurking in your garage or in the back of a cupboard that you’ve always wanted to know more about. We’ll rack out brains to come up with an answer!
Or just come along and be intrigued and amazed at some the things that come out of the woodwork. Read more about the Antiques: You Show – We Tell event here. (If you’re bringing something along, remember to register it at the Wellington Foyer at 11.30 am.)
Mystery item 1, 1800s, PC002789, Te Papa
I was looking through Te Papa’s history collections and spotted some pretty mysterious and weird-looking things. Here are three to begin with – see if you can guess what they are or what they were used for.
Mystery item 2, 1900s, GH002299, Te Papa
Here’s a hint – you can find them all on our collection database, Collections Online.
Keep reading the blog – I’ll have more curious curios to challenge you with tomorrow.
Mystery item 3, 1800-1852, GH003203, Te Papa
And check out the astroturf room in our new exhibition, Slice of Heaven: 20th Centure Aotearoa, where you can explore even more treasures and oddities from the 1900s.
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Wish we had more trains to get there from Wairarapa, only one down and same back for the day… or I would be in attendance… mystery item 2, have seen those scissors before… love odd objects!
adele
Hi Adele – The scissors are more than just scissors! I’m just about to reveal their identity and use in another blog.
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