The Auckland Museum is an authoritative source of images depicting New Zealand and Pacific culture and history with a particular emphasis on the Auckland region including photographs, prints, drawings, posters and paintings. The photograph collection in particular is a major New Zealand collection.
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Unknown (n.d.).Auckland War Memorial Museum – Tāmaki Paenga Hira. PH-PR-16.
The Museum holds one of the nation's most important pictorial collections - a wealth of historic paintings, rare watercolours, photographs and other artworks. Selections of these are periodically exhibited in the Pictorial Gallery along with other touring pictorial exhibitions.
The Museum's pictorial collections are truly world class. Most of New Zealand's greatest photographers are represented here, while amateur albums of family snaps and soldiers mementos are a hidden treasure for descendants and social historians.
The Polynesian Photograph Collection in particular is one of the most complete collections of Pacific "pre-arrival" photography and imagery to be found anywhere in the world.
Information about the collections and where to find them in the Museum.
Read moreThe Museum Library holds over 3,700 manuscripts collections, about 2,000 linear (shelf) metres.
Read moreThe Museum's manuscript collections are accessible through the Library.
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