Fantastical Digitising

Fantastical Digitising

For a number of years, artist Sacha Lees has been trusting NZMS to digitise her Fantastical artworks. For her current exhibition ‘Vagrant Mind’ at the Exhibitions Gallery in Wellington we had the pleasure of viewing and carefully digitising her beautiful and unique...

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13,000 Surveyors Field Books

13,000 Surveyors Field Books

NZMS are currently digitising 13,000 field books for Land Information New Zealand (LINZ).
As part of a much larger project for LINZ which includes large format maps, we are currently digitising approximately 630,000 pages of field books for the North Island, with some of them dating back to 1872.

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Bulford Kiwi

Bulford Kiwi

Earlier this year we received a unique digitisation request. The grid layout of a chalk Kiwi commonly known as the Bulford Kiwi carved by New Zealand troops on Bulford Hill near Stonehenge. The carving has recently become a “scheduled monument” on the advice of Historic England as part of the centenary of World War I.  The 130 metre tall Kiwi was carved by New Zealand troops stationed at Sling Camp in Bulford following the 1917 Battle of Messines in Belgium.

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