Collections Online

Search Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland Museum's Collections Online, featuring over 900,000 records and 300,000 openly licensed images from our Natural Sciences, Documentary Heritage and Human History Collections.

Explore featured blogs, imagery, partnerships and data experiments. Ka taea hoki te rapu i te kohinga i roto i te reo Māori.

Image: Atarangi, 2002 & 2001 © Michael Parekowhai. 2018.48.1, 2018.47.1.

About the Collection

Documentary Heritage

Human History

Natural Sciences

Online Cenotaph

Sir Edmund Hillary Archive

Explore 7,000+ historic photographs from Sir Edmund Hillary’s extensive personal collection which provide a first-hand look at his world-leading expeditions, from the summit of Mount Everest to the South Pole in Antarctica.

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Auckland Museum Collections on Flickr

Explore the Museum's collection photography on flickr.com, with thousands of high resolution images free to download and re-use.

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Featured Collections

Blog

Te Awe

Blog

Ngāpuhi Nursing Sisters

Blog

Kia kaha te reo Māori!

Collection Images

Cats

Collection Images

Waka Huia

Collection Images

Korowai

Partnership

GBIF

Partnership

BHL

Partnership

Google Arts and Culture

Collection Stories

Auckland Museum is home to over four million objects and a team of passionate people who care for, learn from, and share our important collections. Here are the stories from our people and our taonga.

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Applied Arts Explorer

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Collection Colour Search

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Collections Online