He Kupenga — NZ Network for the History of Science, Medicine, Technology

Research resources in New Zealand

This page will always be under construction: reports on institutions, collections and what researchers can find there are welcomed.

Many New Zealand archival collections have entries in The Community Archive. The entries below aim to be more specific and framed around supporting academic research.

Alexander Turnbull Library

https://natlib.govt.nz/collections/a-z/alexander-turnbull-library-collections

Archives New Zealand — Te Rua Mahana o te Kāwanatanga

http://archives.govt.nz/has

Auckland Public Library — George Grey Special Collections

Among the rare books and manuscripts of the George Grey Collection are several medieval and early modern scientific works including commentaries on Aristotle and Batman's version of John of Trevisa's translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus's De proprietatibus rerum.

http://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/EN/heritage/sirgeorgegrey/Pages/sirgeorgegrey.aspx

Carter Observatory

The Carter Observatory in Wellington, currently the home of astronomy education centre Space Place, holds a small collection of historic astronomical apparatus and observatory architecture and a substantial collection of historic textbooks in astronomy and physics.

Cotter Medical History Museum

http://www.cottermuseum.co.nz/html/collections.html

Ernest & Marion Davis Library

The Ernest & Marion Davis Library, at the Auckland Hospital, holds a sizeable collection of medical historical books and paraphenalia. The Library is not open to the general public but researchers can make appointments to visit.

http://www.nzmuseums.co.nz/account/3391

IPENZ Engineering Heritage

The Institution of Professional Engineers of New Zealand, the national professional body for engineering, has an engineering heritage division that maintains a register of historic sites:

http://www.ipenz.org.nz/heritage/database.cfm

Kauri Museum

The Kauri Museum in Matakohe, near the Waipoua kauri forest, holds natural history specimens and an archive documenting the kauri forestry and gum industries.

http://www.kau.nz/collections/research/

Museum of Transport and Technology

The Museum of Transport and Technology, known locally as MOTAT, holds a large and diverse collection of historic technologies. The research collection includes objects of medical and scientific significance, rare steam and early liquid fuel technologies, domestic and food processing technologies, computing and telecommunications technologies (including a working Meccano-based differential analyser). The operational collection includes a diverse range of letterpress printing equipment, a coal-fired beam engine water pump in its original pumphouse, historic trams from both New Zealand and Australia.

http://www.motat.org.nz/collections/collection-online/

The Museum's Walsh Memorial Library holds manuals and trades textbook collections in addition to photograph collections documenting transportation.

http://www.motat.org.nz/collections/walsh-memorial-library/

New Zealand Maritime Museum

http://www.maritimemuseum.co.nz/collections-research

University of Auckland — library special collections

The University Library's Special Collections include documentation about the university's and university library's own history. There is a collection of student laboratory notebooks in geology.

University of Auckland — heritage collections

Computing history displays

The Department of Computer Science has a heritage collection of computing hardware displayed mostly in its own corridors and stairwells, with a few items in nearby thoroughfares.

https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/historydisplays/

The MacGregor Museum

19th and 20th century teaching apparatus for biological sciences — charts, taxidermies, articulated skeleta, models.

https://mcgregor.sbs.auckland.ac.nz

University of Auckland — oral histories

Engineering: http://digitool.auckland.ac.nz/R/X7TLERUUYU679Y6EAX3CBG3P159R3UR14KH4XCQAKDS1L5IPU7-00573?func=collections-result&collection_id=1263

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