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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection care and access 

Find out how we acquire and care for works of art, taonga, artefacts, and specimens. See some of our recent acquisitions. Learn how you can access our collections and archives for research or exhibition purposes including borrowing from our collections.

  • Loans
    Loans

    Te Papa is committed to lending its collection items to non-profit organisations for public exhibition or to approved institutions for research purposes.

  • Conservation
    Conservation

    Find out how the conservation team cares for the many collections and thousands of treasures held at Te Papa.

  • Acquisition process
    Acquisition process

    Te Papa has a Collection Development Policy, which provides the overarching policy and guiding principles for collection development.

  • History of the Collections
    History of the Collections

    Explore here some of the history behind Te Papa’s Māori, Pacific, Art and Visual Culture, History, and Natural History Collections.

  • Te Papa Policy
    Te Papa Policy

    Te Papa's responsibilities for the management of the national collections are set out in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Act 1992. 

  • Get access to Te Papa's Collections and Archives
    Get access to Te Papa's Collections and Archives

    Find out about the various ways that members of the public can access Te Papa’s collections and archives.

  • Enquiries and Identification
    Enquiries and Identification

    Every year staff at Te Papa field thousands of questions on everything from art to zoology and are asked to identify a bewildering array of objects and natural history specimens. This page tells you how to get the answers you need.

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