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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

2021-12-23
By: Leon Perrie
On: 23 Dec 2021
In: Collections Online, Science

Coronavirus lockdown: How to work on Te Papa specimens when shut out of the building

What if we all had to work from home for an extended period? Many of the Natural History staff could research and write papers from home, but what about the people whose jobs normally involved handling specimens every day?Read more

2020-07-14
By: Bridget Hatton
On: 14 Jul 2020
In: Behind the scenes, Science
A birds-eye-view of the imaging process. Photograph by Riah King-Wall. © Te Papa

A Victorian Tomboy, Navigating History and Maps Maps Maps!

By Riah King-Wall, intern Kia ora – I’m Riah King-Wall, and for the past five weeks I’ve been digging into some of the fascinating bits and pieces housed within the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Here on placement from the Master of Museum and Heritage Studies programme atRead more

2014-07-15
By: Te Papa
On: 15 Jul 2014
In: Māori, Pacific

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