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Watercolour painting of a snow-capped mountain with tree ferns and stream in foreground.

Encountering Mīharo | Tom Cruise Performed His Own Stunts: An Art History for a Fake Mountain

By Lachlan Taylor
1 October 2021
Enjoy responses to the Mīharo Wonder exhibition from MA students in creative writing.
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Page from Gutenberg Bible in situ in gallery on special mount at the Mīharo Wonder exhibition.

Gutenberg comes to Wellington

By Anthony Tedeschi
28 September 2021
A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible is on display for the final weeks of the Mīharo Wonder exhibition.
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People watching a conical shaped mountain with large plumes of steam coming from its centre.

Encountering Mīharo | Ngāuruhoe 1926, Today

By Gerard O’Brien
24 September 2021
Enjoy responses to the Mīharo Wonder exhibition from MA students in creative writing.
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A woman stares intently into the camera, scratches visible on the image from damage to the glass plate.

Encountering Mīharo | Daguerreotype

By Flora Feltham
15 September 2021
Enjoy responses to the Mīharo Wonder exhibition from MA students in creative writing.
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A very tall, big Māori man in shorts holding a cup of drink talking to a smaller Japanese man wearing trousers, a singlet and braces.

Encountering Mīharo | Song of home

By Aline Tran
10 September 2021
Enjoy responses to the Mīharo Wonder exhibition from MA students in creative writing.
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A woman speaking from behind a lectern.

Goodbye Lydia

By Chris Szekely
8 September 2021
A farewell tribute to Lydia Wevers, longstanding and influential friend to the National Library.
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An antique miniature globe sits in a clear plastic case with its matching case, open like a clam shell.

Encountering Mīharo | Never storm

By Phoebe Wright
3 September 2021
Enjoy responses to the Mīharo Wonder exhibition from MA students in creative writing.
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Seven people on a log bridge. Some sitting some standing, they hold a variety of things including flowers and a suitcase.

Encountering Mīharo | Apropos of distraction

By Jonathan McLeod
13 August 2021
Enjoy responses to the Mīharo Wonder exhibition from MA students in creative writing.
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People in a room with Māori carvings. Main focus is a man wearing a jerkin with a flaming skull and the words Head Hunters Rotorua on the back of it.

Encountering Mīharo | ‘Patched gang members in the Māori Affairs Committee Room’, 1979

By Leah Dodd
6 August 2021
Enjoy responses to the Mīharo Wonder exhibition from MA students in creative writing.
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Open diary showing 2 pages of handwriting. The diary entry is headed "Travel Light".

Encountering Mīharo | Travel light

By Joe Parker
30 July 2021
Enjoy responses to the Mīharo Wonder exhibition from MA students in creative writing.
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A portrait of a tired looking woman and recalcitrant looking young child. They are holding hands.

Encountering Mīharo | from ‘Mr Eagle among the portraits’

By Eva Wyles
23 July 2021
Enjoy responses to the Mīharo Wonder exhibition from MA students in creative writing.
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Large body of water rushing through a narrow channel and trees on the bank.

Encountering Mīharo | Panoramic view of the Aratiatia Rapids

By Jiaqiao Liu
9 July 2021
Enjoy responses to the Mīharo Wonder exhibition from MA students in creative writing.
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AV technician seen in white lab coat operating a large reel to reel tape machine while wearing headphones.

Flying Nun in the studio

By Michael Brown
21 May 2021
An interview with Senior AV Conservator Nick Guy about the work he's doing to digitise and preserve the audio held on the Flying Nun Records master tapes.
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Hands wearing rubber gloves are displaying a magnetic reel of tape.

Flying Nun in the spotlight

By Claire Viskovic
14 May 2021
The first of two blogs charting the work to digitise and preserve the Flying Nun label’s master tapes donated to the Library in 2018.
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Close up of knots used to make a hīnaki | eel trap.

From Mīharo Wonder — He Mahi Kupenga by Matthew McIntyre-Wilson

By Mary Hay
27 April 2021
A letter about a new artwork created for the Mīharo Wonder exhibition.
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Pedestrians crossing the street beneath a banner with the words, 'Thanks Alex, 100 wonderful years. Kia ora koutou katoa', alongside a picture of Alexander Turnbull.

Thanks Alex, 100 wonderful years, kia ora koutou katoa

By Chris Szekely
15 January 2021
Chief Librarian Chris Szekely commemorates the first 100 years of the Alexander Turnbull Library and offers a glimpse of what's to come.
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A man points a video camera at a man standing behind a painting.

Lights, camera, action — the making of the Turnbull Library's mini-documentary

By Paula MacLachlan
17 December 2020
Paula MacLachlan, Executive Producer of the new Turnbull Library documentary, takes us behind-the-scenes to see how the film came together.
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Two portraits with large gold frames are seen on easels.

Paintings in Perpetuity

By Oliver Stead
7 December 2020
A new campaign to repair and clean oil paintings held in the Turnbull Library collections will enable greater access to these historically significant works of art.
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An audiocassette with white label and in upper left corner some writing in blue ballpoint pen.

Doodles, demos and jammy things

By William Daymond
6 November 2020
Progress on the Flying Nun Project including updates to the 162 audiocassettes of live gigs, demos, rough mixes, and interviews that have recently been digitised.
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Large group of singers posed up a staircase.

The most exciting, the most spectacular production in the show history of New Zealand

By Vicki-Anne Heikell
12 June 2020
Memories of the 1965 New Zealand Opera Company ‘Porgy and Bess’ show.
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