Collections

Celebrating International Stereoscopy Day with a look at stereoscopic photographs in the Alexander Turnbull Library.

Aotearoa New Zealand's protest history documented in the Ephemera Collection.

All about our large and rich music collections.

Making more music available for download and reuse from the Luke Rowell Collection.

Celebrating the tenth annual Turnbull Mixtape filled to the brim with Creative Commons music from the last decade.

Digital preservation of NZ composer and sonic artist John Cousins' collection.

Wondering what music-related ephemera is contained in the collections?

Iconic sound artist and composer John Cousins’ career, creative work and audio recordings from the Library collections.

Utaina! the project that is all about digitising audiovisual collections.

Celebrating the life and legacy of broadcaster and historian Peter Downes.

The first in a series of upcoming blogs about archiving ephemera at the Alexander Turnbull Library

Archiving the 2022 Wellington protests.

Celebrating the release of ‘Te Kupenga, 101 stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull’

We talk to cartoonist Toby Morris about the COVID-19 cartoons created with Siouxsie Wiles.

The annual retrospective with observations and reflections from the Turnbull Library team who make our collections easier to find and use.

Read about the Ngā Tanga Reo Māori project on Papers Past.

Recovering details from the photographs of a small West Coast mining town.

Was Turnbull House made from prison bricks? Jared Davidson gets to the bottom of some convict curios in the collection.

Delving into the Cartoon and Comics Archive to help a researcher find answers.

The history and services provided by the Print Disabilities Service.