This week­end at Te Papa is going to be a grand one. Not only is it your last chance to see the very pop­u­lar Game Mas­ters, but kick­ing off at 10am and run­ning non stop till 6pm on Sat­urday is Maker­tori­um!

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Maker­tori­um is a cel­eb­ra­tion of New Zeal­and’s  crafters, cre­at­ors, tinker­ers and invent­ors, of all ages and their fans. The action is spread across eight zones and includes over 50 exhib­it­ors.  The three main spots to check out all the action are the Wel­ling­ton Foy­er at the top of the stairs, Icon next door  and the Amphi­theat­er out­side the down­stairs cafe (home to the maker­crate and rock­et-mak­ing).

Instead of a bor­ing prin­ted pro­gramme and to save our pre­cious forest and trees, Maker­tori­um is  using Show­Gizmo as their smart­phone app. It’s free to down­load from the App Store, for Android  – and put Maker­tori­um in the palm of your hand – or use the mobile web ver­sion showgizmo.mobi.

Unlike a fair Maket­or­i­um is about meet­ing all these mar­velous makers, ask­ing them them the import­ant ques­tions in life (like  ‘how on earth did you dream that up’, ‘can i do that’ and ‘how does that work’ ). Watch­ing shiny things, things that go bang and check­ing out cuddly and not so cuddly creatures in the tweet me inter­act­ive forest or the 3D pet­ting zoo.

Tweet Me Inter­ac­tion forest install­a­tion from tan­ya mar­ri­ott on Vimeo.

Work­shops are run­ning all day long and any­one can drop in and learn about LEDS, elec­tron­ics, design and craft. You can make a sock ali­en, a rock­et or have a go mak­ing a World War One style peri­scope in The Wel­ling­ton Maker­space Anzac Peri­scope Chal­lenge

Right now you can fol­low behind the scenes in Stor­i­fy in the run up to Maker­tori­um

behind the scenes

On the day you can watch Maker­tori­um TV being made live, and streamed world­wide from the giant Maker­booth on the day.