Daniel Kumar is a Global Studies student at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, specialising in Pacific Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Human Rights, and interests spanning across design, visual culture, and the stories held within museum collections. Here he responds to questions about his mahi as an intern atRead more
Recently, Curator Invertebrates Entomology Dr Julia Kasper re-discovered a box of audio tapes stored alongside our entomology collection. They were recorded by Sir Charles Fleming in his pioneering study of our country’s cicadas in the 1960s and 70s. Intern Finlay Dempster explains the significance of these audio tapes and the man who made them.Read more
Over the next little while I am going to let you know where you will see Te Papa’s collection items on display at other places. Today I am going to let you know where to see some of the items in our history collection in the South Island. If youRead more
