Jul 22, 2019 | Case Studies, Collection Management, Digitise, Leigh Rout, Museums
New technologies in digitisation are paving the way for more accurate and visually descriptive preservation of cultural heritage collections. Of these new technologies, NZMS is embracing structured light 3D scanning to capture objects 3-dimensionally, delivering...
Jul 15, 2019 | Archives, Case Studies, Collection Management, Digitise, Libraries, Planning
Museum Theatre Gallery Hawke’s Bay (MTG) houses a vast collection and archive spanning across textiles, taonga, art, newspapers, and photographs. During MTG’s collection management hazard identification project, the Collection Coordinator, Sara Perrett, and Collection...
Jul 1, 2019 | Events, Josh O'Rourke, News, The National Digital Forum
Emanuella, Siobhan, Ella and Josh spent a sunny winters day at the Ashburton Museum and Art Gallery for the 2019 Canterbury Regional Digital Forum ‘Un-Conference.’ The morning was spent listening to short presentations on a range of topics. These had a big focus on...
Jun 30, 2019 | Archives, Collection Management, Digitise, News
Our Wellington team have been digitising another collection of Field books for LINZ with a selection from The Antarctic. This collection is dated from 1957 – 1976 and include some wonderful surprises our team have discovered whilst digitising. The black and white...
Jun 13, 2019 | Alison Barnett, Events, Museums Aotearoa, News
The title of this year’s MA2019 Conference MA19 – Ko Aotearoa Tēnei – This is New Zealand was a bold statement of intent directly referencing the eponymous 2011 WAI262 Waitangi Tribunal report, Ko Aotearoa Tēnei (This is New Zealand). It therefore followed that our...
