If you have children in #Wellington this Saturday 20th April bring them to Te Papa between 10am & 2pm to meet Nanogirl - STEM Activities for Kids resident paleontologist Debbie Lovegrove at their FREE fossil finders whānau day!
Performing our interactive paleontology dinosaur show plus real fossils!

Tiny houses are trending even in the deep sea! With fewer and smaller shells available, hermit crabs make do--but home is wherever you tuck your telson! Ocean Census NIWA Te Papa

Curious and familiar blobs 😁 Check out some of the deep sea finds our curator of fishes Thom has encountered at sea! #oceancensus

My new blog post about a Te Papa research associate who has been donating specimens to the museum for a whopping 71 years! 🌿🪳blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2024/02/15/a-l… via @te_papa

Today was my first day meeting a spiny sea slater. Amazing critters! This doesn't do the colours justice. #realpokemon

NIWA
Ocean Census
Te Papa

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The post war drive to export British wool saw designs make their way around the world. The fine wool summer dress with matching stole & printed square motifs was designed by Elizabeth Henry & sent to New Zealand, featuring in the 1949 exhibition The Romance of Wool Te Papa

Birds of Te Araroa 11 – Palmerston North to Wellington blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2024/01/17/bir… via @te_papa

He Kārere! A statement from Te Papa Co-leaders Tumu Whakarae Courtney Johnston and Kaihautū Dr Arapata Hakiwai.

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A fabulous blog about #Wikidata and #identifiers by Te Papa staff member Lucy Schrader. The blog also contains a great Youtube video youtube.com/watch?v=bbpf3r… by Gareth Watkinson on how Te Papa is using Wikidata blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2023/12/05/agr…

New blog post on the ferns of Lord Howe Island 👇blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2023/11/28/the… via @te_papa with RBG Victoria

A beautiful tribute to our dear colleague and friend Pat Brownsey; a stalwart of the Te Papa museum, beginning in 1977 💚blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2023/11/23/pat…

Just when I thought I couldn't love Te Papa bird expert Colin Miskelly any more, he starts blogging the Te Araroa trail with his bird finds (common, rare, dead, alive ...) and razor-sharp insights blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2023/11/10/bir…

Lord Howe Island – a botanist’s paradise blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2023/11/15/lor… via @te_papa

The Stopgap A timely reminder that we have some SERIOUS dino stuff coming to Te Papa this summer tepapa.govt.nz/visit/exhibiti…

Kua hinga te tōtara o Te Waonui a Tāne 🌿
We are saddened to hear our dear colleague, over 40 years as Te Papa’s passionate #botany and philatelic (stamp) collections, has passed away. Our thoughts are with Pat Brownsey and his family during this time 💚

Specimen from the rare #squid genus Lepidoteuthis for #MolluscMonday .

Lepido- = 'scaly' in Greek.
Dermal cushions ≠ true scales, but they sure look it!

Te Papa NMNZ M.118158, ML 460 mm, female, collected in 1984 off eastern New Zealand.

#squid ID #MolluskMonday #deepsea

Meet the 7 new Institutions on Unsplash 📚

Te Papa
Provincial Archives of Alberta
The Art Institute of Chicago
Nationalmuseet
Nasjonalbiblioteket
Aust War Memorial
Nationaal Archief

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Spiders! There’s a reason you either love ’em or hate ’em (and pigeons, cats, and tapeworms) blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2023/10/31/spi… via @te_papa