Family Tapestry

Family Tapestry

Family treasures come in all shapes and sizes, over the years NZMS has digitised slide collections, photo albums, diaries, framed portraits and much other family memorabilia.  Often people come to us ‘on the off chance’ thinking their treasure is too difficult to make...
Selling the Dream

Selling the Dream

Selling the Dream: the art of early New Zealand Tourism was a labour of love for authors Peter Alsop, Gary Stewart and Dave Bamford.  The book is a celebration of tourism posters and other publicity that helped promote New Zealand before the 1960s and the chapters are...

NZMS Opens Auckland Branch

NZMS is proud to announce the establishment of a permanent northern branch, based in central Auckland. With the opening of our new digitisation facility, we will be able to offer a full range of on-site and off-site digitisation and content conversion services for...
Early Land Registers

Early Land Registers

Despite their age, these records which document the control and management of land back to the 1840s are still vital evidence of land ownership in New Zealand.  With the closure of Land Information New Zealand processing centres around NZ between 2009-2011,...

Southern Regional Center, Christchurch

NZMS launched a new Southern Regional digitisation centre, based in Christchurch on 9 February 2012, celebrating with friends from the Canterbury heritage sector. Since then we have been delighted by the support and encouragement we’ve received from the Canterbury...
Hector's Map of the Otago Province, 1864

Hector's Map of the Otago Province, 1864

This beautiful early geological map of Otago once hung in the University of Otago’s Geology Museum.  It was sent north to be conserved in the 1970s but somehow went missing for 25 years. Rediscovered and returned to the Hocken Library, the map was fully conserved and...