National Library Wellington
Te Ahumairangi: 8.30am – 5pm
Reading Rooms: 10am – 5pm
Monday to Saturday
The Library is closed on public holidays
Corner Molesworth & Aitken St
0800 474 300
04 474 3000
Upcoming events
- Thursday 27 July: Japan's territorial disputes: Policy success or failure?
- Friday 28 July: Kate sent me! Women voters in New Zealand
- Friday 28 July: Ki tua o te puhi rauwhero
- Tuesday 1 August: Cook Islands Language Week 2017
- Thursday 3 August: Women’s participation and representation in politics
- Friday 4 August: He wāhine aweawe: Māori women of influence
- Friday 11 August: Owning our dusky selves: Sex, skin, and women's business
- Saturday 12 August: Abstracting Oral History: Wellington
- Sunday 13 August: The politics of womanhood
- Tuesday 15 August: National Preservation Office Conservation Clinic
- Thursday 17 August: The history of equal pay in New Zealand
- Sunday 20 August: He Whakaputanga and the Treaty — and their signatories
- Saturday 26 August: Essentials of oral history day two: Wellington
- Thursday 31 August: The ethics of treaties
- Wednesday 6 September: Treaty of Waitangi Fellows
- Friday 8 September: Open the book: Literature at the heart of literacy — Wellington
- Tuesday 17 October: National Preservation Office Conservation Clinic
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