If this, then that – Blastochor, data, and Google Art
We just released over 5000 out-of-copyright and Creative Commons-licensed collection images to Google Arts & Culture, with more to come. Digital Channels Outreach Manager Lucy Schrader talks about...
View ArticleWhat’s in a name? The trail to Ngā Taniwha o Rūpapa
Here, Ariki Spooner, Kaitaki Tīma Tuhituhi Reo Māori, discusses the process of arriving at the te reo Māori name Ngā Taniwha o Rūpapa for the Dinosaurs of Patagonia exhibition coming this summer. Read...
View ArticleThe Digby/Woolf Project is wrapping up…
For almost two years, Te Papa has been digitising the Spencer Digby / Ronald D Woolf collection of photographic negatives. Now the project has reached the end of its funding, here's some highlights...
View ArticleThe 2023 Strannik Auckland Island Expedition: An extraordinary botanical...
In January 2023, Te Papa Botany Curator Heidi Meudt was one of a team of Aotearoa New Zealand botanists and crew who travelled to Motu Maha Auckland Islands to undertake botanical research and make new...
View ArticlePatrick Brownsey 1948–2023
Pat was a stalwart of the museum, beginning in 1977. He was a curator of botany and expert on New Zealand ferns. But he was so much more, including curating Te Papa’s stamp collection, and at various...
View ArticleThe 2023 Strannik Auckland Island Expedition: Our favourite places and plants
Meet the eleven members of the research team and crew that participated in the 2023 Strannik Auckland Island Expedition. After spending four weeks on the expedition to Motu Maha Auckland Islands, and...
View ArticleAgreeing to agree: Roundtripping people identifiers with Wikidata
Being sure that we’re all talking about the same person is a vital part of sharing collections and data between sources. Lucy Schrader, Digital Channels Outreach Manager, shows how we’re using Wikidata...
View ArticleEight clever inventions to avoid haddock havoc in the Fish Team
We all need to ‘scale up’ in our careers, so which tools have the Fish Team at Te Papa invented over the years to a) solve the unique challenges of their jobs and b) dazzle international visitors like...
View ArticleKiwi Wikipedians at Wikimania 2023
Once a year around 2000 Wikipedians – the dedicated writers, researchers, photographers, data scientists, developers, and more who improve Wikipedia and its related sites day by day – get together for...
View ArticleWhat’s it like to be on a subantarctic expedition?
The eleven researchers and crew on the Strannik 2023 Auckland Island Expedition journeyed to the Auckland Islands in January 2023 to undertake botanical field work over four weeks on the main Auckland...
View ArticleA lifelong interest in nature leads to thousands of specimens for Te Papa
Te Papa contains about 1.5 million natural history specimens. Many of these have been gifted by donors with some 16 000 people collecting specimens for Te Papa. Research Associate Peter Beveridge has...
View ArticleTe Papa’s botanical specimen data now on GBIF
Where can you find harakeke outside Aotearoa? What species of forget-me-not live on Banks Peninsula?* Answering these questions is now a lot easier because our herbarium’s botanical specimen data –...
View ArticleGear necessities: what our botanists take on their field trips
Ever wondered what curators take with them when they go out on the field (or in the mountains, or down in the depths of the oceans)? Let’s begin with botanists Lara Shepherd and Leon Perrie.Read more
View ArticleCyclone Gabrielle – reflecting one year on
As we mark the anniversary of Cyclone Gabrielle’s devastation over parts of the North Island, Mātauranga Māori Curator Amber Aranui thought it poignant to reflect on the year, what has taken place and...
View ArticleInsights, passion, and hope for the future of New Zealand’s subantarctic islands
In the ninth blog in the series on the Strannik 2023 Auckland Island Expedition, Botany Curator Heidi Meudt interviews the two organisers behind it. Rodney Russ and Alex Fergus discuss their...
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