Tumu Whakarae | Chief Executive at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa @Te_Papa tepapa.govt.nz | She / her.
Joined September 2008
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Courtney Johnston retweeted
10 Aug 2024
My first Sunday cover story is a profile of Tayi Tibble, in the wake of international success and ahead of her guest curator role at WORD Christchurch. thepress.co.nz/culture/35037…
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Courtney Johnston retweeted
2 Aug 2024
'Feltham’s writing is both poetic and precise, evoking the quality of grainy family photographs.' Sara Bucher reviews BAD ARCHIVE for @ANZRevBooks nzreviewofbooks.com/bad-arch…
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Courtney Johnston retweeted
1 Aug 2024
We're very sad to say that our publicist Todd Atticus is leaving us soon (for a dream job in the UK, so trying not to be TOO sad). We're now looking for a new publicist to join our team. Here's the ad: seek.co.nz/job/77793482
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Courtney Johnston retweeted
17 Jul 2024
Wanna do something free and sciencey in #Welington tomorrow evening? Come to our free talk at @Te_Papa. Along with our @niwa_nz friends, we'll be talking about the @oceancensus expedition to the #BountyTrough. #DeepSea, #NewSpeces and adventure at sea.
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6 Jul 2024
RT @etangata: “I've been successful in broadcasting because I am fair, and while people who are non-Māori have been wary of me, and some wo…
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Courtney Johnston retweeted
26 Jun 2024
Who cares about the red-billed gull? Not most of us. The red & white squawking flurries are such a part of our coastal landscape that they’re basically beach wallpaper. But red-bills are in trouble: my latest for @NZGeographic, astounding pics by @depthnz
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Courtney Johnston retweeted
12 Jun 2024
Forty years on from Rob Muldoon’s brandy-fuelled snap election call, the reverberations of the fourth Labour government continue to be felt.
Juggernaut was made with the support of NZ On Air.
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Courtney Johnston retweeted
12 Jun 2024
“‘We’re writing history’: Spanish women tackle Wikipedia’s gender gap.” Great write up of Wikimedia Spain’s efforts to improve the coverage of women in Wikipedia. theguardian.com/technology/a…
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Courtney Johnston retweeted
12 Jun 2024
We have things in the @Te_Papa
collection that no longer exist. The poor #NewZealand #greyling has not been seen since the 1920s and was declared extinct in 2018. These specimens are quite literally irreplaceable.
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9 Jun 2024
Emma Donoghue's reading life possibly explains why I love her writing so much - so much overlap theguardian.com/books/articl…
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3 Jun 2024
So excited to be on the count-down to the launch of Claire's book. Claire's given so much to readers and writers in Aotearoa; I feel like this is an opportunity for us all to support her back 💕
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24 May 2024
Free evening event, Thursday 18 July — loads of scientists, tonnes of stories 🐠🦀🐚🚢🦑🪸
24 May 2024
Are you in #Wellington in July? Fancy a sciency night out? #Marinebiologists from @Te_Papa and @niwa_nz will be talking about the recent #deepsea @oceancensus expedition that discovered over 100 #newspecies.
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19 May 2024
RT @etangata: “Ritual and celebration are absolutely a form of resistance. Matariki, for example, is a very loud statement saying that we d…
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Courtney Johnston retweeted
8 May 2024
'I am not a solo artist with a vocation, who was always going to make work against the odds. I'm a former goofy, sometimes lonely kid whose feelings were met and imagination stimulated by the stories in books.' rnz.co.nz/news/national/5163…
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Courtney Johnston retweeted
5 May 2024
A week left to catch Richard Lewer's exhibition, 'What they didn't teach me at school', at the Portrait Gallery.
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"People will say, I only want to read facts and serious and important stuff ... But we also know what people do read"
Listen to two of the best in the business, Mad Chapman and Anna Rawhiti-Connell, talk about how the news gets made in their new podcast thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/be…
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Courtney Johnston retweeted
3 May 2024
Then @PouTepou found out & next minute…I’m on THIS panel. Anyway it’s next weekend and apparently this festival is fabulous. Join us. PS I thought Featherston was IN Poneke 🤷🏽♀️ @etangata @TeAoWithMOANA 2/
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Courtney Johnston retweeted
1 May 2024
Really stoked to share this latest 'Just So' column with hilarious and relatable cartoons by @giselledraws. This one is about just how gay the animal world is--nature queer in tooth and claw. nzgeo.com/stories/rainbow-wo…
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1 May 2024
I love looking at how our photography team approaches collections items when prepping them for Collections Online, like these beautiful details of this rāpaki collections.tepapa.govt.nz/o…
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