Te Papa will reopen at 10am tomorrow after sprinklers went off on Wednesday evening, closing the museum for two days.

Sprinklers were activated in the museum's ground floor and first floor foyers on Wednesday night despite there being no fire.

Thousands of heads, skulls, skeletons and bones of indigenous Maori and Moriori were taken from New Zealand by European and American anthropologists.

A Dreamworks Animation showcase begins tomorrow at Te Papa