Selling the Dream

Selling the Dream

Selling the Dream: the art of early New Zealand Tourism was a labour of love for authors Peter Alsop, Gary Stewart and Dave Bamford.  The book is a celebration of tourism posters and other publicity that helped promote New Zealand before the 1960s and the chapters are...

NZMS Opens Auckland Branch

NZMS is proud to announce the establishment of a permanent northern branch, based in central Auckland. With the opening of our new digitisation facility, we will be able to offer a full range of on-site and off-site digitisation and content conversion services for...
Recollect Upper Hutt goes live

Recollect Upper Hutt goes live

Our best wishes to the awesome team at Upper Hutt City Library who are officially launching the Upper Hutt City Library Heritage Collections on RECOLLECT on 11 October.  This is the start of an innovative and exciting new development for Upper Hutt, aimed at fostering...

Southern Regional Center, Christchurch

NZMS launched a new Southern Regional digitisation centre, based in Christchurch on 9 February 2012, celebrating with friends from the Canterbury heritage sector. Since then we have been delighted by the support and encouragement we’ve received from the Canterbury...
Hector's Map of the Otago Province, 1864

Hector's Map of the Otago Province, 1864

This beautiful early geological map of Otago once hung in the University of Otago’s Geology Museum.  It was sent north to be conserved in the 1970s but somehow went missing for 25 years. Rediscovered and returned to the Hocken Library, the map was fully conserved and...
TREATY 2 U

TREATY 2 U

The Treaty 2 U touring exhibition was jointly curated by Te Papa, Archives New Zealand and the National Library of New Zealand. It told the story of New Zealand’s founding document: the Treaty of Waitangi, from the back of a truck! The centrepiece of the exhibition...