The first predecessor to Te Papa was the Colonial Museum, founded in 1865, with Sir James Hector as founding director. The museum was built on Museum Street, roughly in the location of the present … Collections Online has information on over 1,000,000 artworks, objects and specimens from Te Papa’s collections; from dinosaur teeth to contemporary art, & buzzy bee to Xena. Collection areas cover … Dive into Te Papa’s range of websites, from Collections Online to the blog, and find out about our collections policy and acquisition process. There are approximately 2.5 million items in Te Papa's collections, built up since 1865, when the Colonial Museum opening in Museum Street, Wellington, close to where the Beehive is now. The collection now houses a broad range of predominantly New Zealand, but also international, painting, sculpture, prints, watercolours, drawings, photographs, and archival material. Find information on 1,000,000-plus treasures in Te Papa’s history, science, and art collections, from Māori kākahu and Pacific tattoos, to dinosaur teeth and contemporary art. There’s something for … Te Papa is actively working to digitise our collections, so that people can easily see online what non-sensitive specimens and records we care for. As we approached the one-millionth published record, … Explore 800,000 artworks, taonga, photographs, collection objects, and botanical and zoological specimens from Te Papa’s collections. Learn about different cultures – or your own! – or find … Te Papa holds a significant body of work by pictorialist photographers from the 1920s to 1950s, such as George Chance, Les Casbolt and Harry Moult.
