Last year both Cheryll Sotheran and Cliff Whiting, the founding directors of Te Papa, passed away. In August Golden Days, Te Papa’s highly successful object theatre ‒ commissioned by Cheryll and Cliff less than a year out from opening ‒ finally closed. Steve La Hood reflects on what it was like to work with these two giants of the New Zealand cultural scene.

“We'd hear a heavy smack and know a horse had been hit. Mostly they were hit through the stomach and would just shake themselves a little. The owner would take the saddle off immediately, for it was always a mortal wound. The horse would nose around among his mates, shake himself, and five minutes later roll on the sand. It was the beginning of the end.”

Captain Arthur Rhodes, New Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade, World War 1

Why just paint the town red when you can go rainbow! In the second installment of his European blog posts Steve reminisces about his visit to Copenhagen during the city's annual Pride Week. 

For three months in mid-2017, Story Inc Director Steve La Hood undertook a sabbatical around the USA and Europe. Here, in the first of a series of posts about visitor experiences he enjoyed while on the road, Steve waxes lyrical about the BMW Experience in Munich, Germany.