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City Nature Challenge: Shell Identification, Crafts, and Displays

Join the City Nature Challenge with Te Papa and the Wellington Shell Club.

When | Āhea

Sat 26 Apr 2025, 10.00–6.00pm

Where | Ki hea

The Backyard, Te Taiao | Nature, Level 2 

Cost | Te utu

Free with museum entry

Learn about the amazing diversity of clams and snails here in Aotearoa. As part of the Wellington City Council City Nature Challenge, Te Papa and the Wellington Shell Club are hosting shell displays, shell crafts, and identification station.

Bring in your clean shells and have them identified by our experts and assemble a shell-craft mouse to take home.

 

Douglas shell collection drawers, 2008. Photo by Raymond Coory. Te Papa (180026)