Written by Shonagh Lowerson-Head, Audience Engagement Intern On Tuesday night there was a very special delivery to Te Papa. Eight feet tall and evergreen – our 2013 Christmas tree! The Audience Engagement team had been expecting this arrival for some time, and had been busy creating decorations by hand to adorn it. But these were no… Read more »
I’ve enjoyed searching through Te Papa’s collections to find items related to Christmas for this year’s advent calendar. Advent calendars developed from a 19th century German Lutheran tradition of counting down the 24 days before Christmas. An advent calendar has 24 doors that you open each day from 1 December to Christmas Eve to reveal… Read more »