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.