Taonga that have shaped our identity. Noelle McCarthy celebrates Te Papa's 20th birthday by talking to 20 New Zealanders about 20 treasures that help tell our nation's story.
On Valentines Day 1998, The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa opened on the Wellington waterfront.
Prime Minister Jim Bolger, who pushed it through despite Treasury and cabinet opposition, later said "We needed a museum that captured who we were as a people, as a nation, as a country". Twenty years on, Noelle McCarthy rummages through the collection to find 20 objects that speak to that sense of nationhood Bolger was so keen to put on display.
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