Exhibitions
Events
On display
She's A Mod: New Zealand Fashion in the 1950s and 1960s
Yvonne Todd Ethlyn 2005. Photograph. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 2005
Bronwyn Labrum
Talk
Past event
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Free
Bronwyn Labrum (head of New Zealand and Pacific Cultures at Te Papa) speaks about her new book Real Modern: Everyday New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s, which uses the ordinary objects of the post war years to tell the story of everyday New Zealanders during this fascinating time.
Bronwyn will describe how the fashions of the time both influenced, and were shaped by, the popular culture, politics, economics and social history of this much-loved and often discussed period in our country's history. This will be an extraordinary talk about ordinary things.
Related reading: Talk, Free event
Exhibition
Bad Hair Day
4 June 2016 – 28 May 2017
Bad Hair Day investigates the wild and wonderful ways of hair through painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography and video.
