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A photo of a framed photograph of Carmen Rupe in a low-cut dress with large green costume jewellery

Your life is important – your archive is important

Master’s student Felix Stribling unpacks their research into Aotearoa New Zealand’s queer heritage collections and the importance of centring queer and takatāpui voices in GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums).Read more

By: Felix Stribling

On: 19 Jun 2025

In: Collections Online, History

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Plant-based accessibility: A year-long race to photograph our botany collection

Te Papa strives to improve access to the collections for which it cares – online accessibility is part of this. Botany Curator Leon Perrie writes about the Botany Team’s mission this year to each make one thousand specimen images available online.Read more

By: Leon Perrie

On: 23 Dec 2021

In: Collections Online, Science

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