Botany Tours for Conservation Week at Te Papa

Come behind the scenes to visit the Botany collection which houses more than 300,000 plant specimens collected in Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas.

There are two tours available:

Tuesday 2nd September BOH 11.30 – 12.30pm

Thursday 4th September BOH 3.30 – 4.30PM

You will find out how we store and take care of these valuable collections, and the research they support. There will be a chance to see our precious botanical taonga, including botanical specimens and art, and have a closer look at the very first plants collected by the European naturalists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander over 250 years ago during Captain James Cook’s first voyage to New Zealand.