Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
Open every day 10am-6pm
(except Christmas Day)
Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
This three-panel light work – originally conceived of as ‘The Incredible Dream Zine Machine’ – invites you to make your own fanzine, or do-it-yourself magazine. Fanzines are fantastically varied, from lavish art works to quick-fire fliers. The choice is yours.
22 Aug 2014 – 31 Mar 2016
Level 5
Free entry
To make her work, the artist Kerry Ann Lee trawled through thousands of free images on Te Papa’s Collections Online. She was inspired by childhood treasures like Cole’s Funny Picture Book (1979).
Typewriters butt up against pink swans. Stuffed penguins jostle with Chinese gowns. Punctuating their dance are provocative questions sparked by internet quizzes and personality tests: What are you waiting for? What should your name really be?
Read more about this exhibition in an interview with artist Kerry Ann Lee
Artist Kerry Ann Lee invites you to enter a dreamscape transit lounge. An installation accessible to ticket holders for ‘Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of Immortality’.
Closed
15 Dec 2018 – 22 Apr 2019
Exhibition Ngā whakaaturanga
Fresh takes and new favourites. You’ll find them in Toi Art.
Toi Art opened again on Saturday 14 June, with more opening up at the beginning of August – see what’s coming up!
On now
Sat 14 Jun
Exhibition Ngā whakaaturanga
Te Papa’s art and visual culture incorporates significant historical material, major contemporary commissions, emerging artists, and nationally significant commercial design material.
