Help from the National Preservation Office
Find out how the National Preservation Office can help you and see a list of suppliers of conservation-quality materials.
What the National Preservation Office can help you with
The National Preservation Office Te Tari Tohu Taonga can:
- provide information on where to get conservation-quality materials for the storage of photographs
- carry out an assessment of your museum, archive or marae and give advice on storing and displaying photographs
- give advice on available funding and support funding applications for conservation projects
- provide guidance on how to minimise the risk of disasters or how to respond afterwards.
Suppliers of conservation-quality materials
Conservation supplies Ltd
- Website — www.conservationsupplies.co.nz
- Email — info@conservationsupplies.co.nz
- Phone — 06 211 3991
Port Nicholson Packaging Ltd
- Website — www.pnp.co.nz
- Email — sales@pnp.co.nz
- Phone — 04 568 5018
Spiral Path Book Studio
- Website — www.spiralpath.co.nz
- Email — info@spiralpath.co.nz
- Phone — 09 817 2909
Triptych Conservation
- Website — www.triptych.co.nz
- Email — info@triptych.co.nz
- Phone — 04 970 0228
Suppliers of digitisation services
New Zealand Micrographic Services
- Website — www.micrographics.co.nz
Phone
- Auckland — 09 357 6642
- Wellington — 04 232 9396
- Christchurch — 03 348 7916
AP Digital
- Website — apdigital.co.nz
- Phone — 09 912 9915
Funding agencies
Lottery Grants Board
Grants to assist museums, galleries, archives and whare taonga. Marae Heritage and Facilities grants for the conservation of marae or taonga inside marae.
- Website — www.communitymatters.govt.nz/Funding-and-grants---Lottery-grants
- Phone — 0800 824 824
Funding Information Service
Advice and information on funding available to community groups in New Zealand.
- Website — www.fis.org.nz
- Email — info@fis.org.nz
- Phone — 04 499 4090
Valuations
Get your objects valued for insurance purposes.
Art and Object
Website — www.artandobject.co.nz
Phone — 0800 806 001
Webb’s
Website — www.webbs.co.nz
Phone — 09 524 6804
Dunbar Sloane
Website — www.dunbarsloane.co.nz
Phone numbers
Auckland — 09 630 9178
Wellington — 04 472 1367
Conservators
New Zealand Conservators of Cultural Materials
Find a conservator.
Website — https://nzccm.org.nz/
Conservators of Cultural Materials Pū Manaaki kahurangi incorporated (NZCCM)
Website — www.conservators.org.nz