Award-winning photographer Jane Ussher spent several weeks in Te Papa's natural history collection storage areas shooting this outstanding book, an...

The alphabet for 0-3 year olds, illustrated with authentically New Zealand artworks and objects from Te Papa's collections

The New Zealand Art Activity Book is packed with activities to encourage chidlren to see, think and draw like artists. They can solve an art myster...

Te Papa holds New Zealand’s national art collection, whose origins date back to 1865 and the establishment of the then Colonial Museum (later the D...

Colours for 0-3 years olds, illustrated with authentically New Zealand artworks and objects from Te Papa's collections

New Zealand Seaweeds is the first photographic identification guide to New Zealand’s unique marine algae, by the country’s pre-eminent seaweed expe...

A fully revised and completely redesigned edition of the first photographic identification guide to New Zealand's unique marine algae, by the count...

The portrait wall in Toi Art, the art gallery within New Zealand’s national museum, Te Papa, is the most popular art exhibition for museum visitors...

From Montana award-winning author Jill Trevelyan comes the first biography of Peter McLeavey, the charismatic, pioneering art dealer who since the ...

Encountering 1,000 years of life in Palliser Bay. Prehistoric Man in Palliser Bay presents, in 14 papers by 9 authors, the results of a pioneering,...

An Illustrated History of Protest and Activism in Aotearoa New Zealand. For a small, peaceful democracy in the South Pacific, New Zealand has had i...

On the 100th anniversary of its creation, this book celebrates Railways Studios - the design studio of the New Zealand Railways - and its role in h...

The decades of the 1950s and ’60s continue to exert a powerful fascination, as seen in the lasting popularity of Mad Men, Crown Lynn collectibles a...

The first book to be devoted to Robin White’s art in 40 years. Its assessment of her remarkable 50 years as an artist includes fresh perspectives b...

This lavish book explores the story behind the promotion of New Zealand's mountains – through posters, advertisements, hand-coloured photos and mor...

This richly illustrated history tells the fascinating story of Pacific people and their relationships with, and contributions to, New Zealand socie...

When Tatau was first published in 2010, Mark Adams’ renowned images documenting a great Polynesian art tradition were a revelation. It told the sto...

Published to mark 20 years since the landmark opening of Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand in 1998, this illustrated book by well-known museu...

New Zealand's national art colleciton is held at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Ten art curators each pick ten art works, and explain...

This book is published to mark the exhibition at Te Papa of the remarkable third century BC funerary statues excavated from the astounding archaeol...

A Comprehensive Guide to the Objects Associated with the Voyages of James Cook Held at New Zealand’s National Museum. Almost 250 years after James ...

Extraordinary writers, weird and wonderful museum objects, and fantastic tales for kids … The Curioseum is a marvellous mix of twenty-two stories a...

In 2006, the award-winning Eagle's Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand was published to widespread acclaim and quickly became a modern classic...

Explore, discover and identify every known species of New Zealand fish in this encyclopaedic and beautifully illustrated guide. The Fishes of New Z...