Collection Partnerships

 

Auckland Museum collection data and imagery is shared with more than twenty partners who make requests to the Collections Online API or receive data by scheduled or curated uploads. We work with both specialist domain aggregators, general international aggregators, social media and curated content platforms to share the museum's collections with internet users around the world.

 

Learn more about some of the projects we’ve undertaken below, or about the impact of Wikipedia making the Museum's collections more widely accessible.

 

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Exactly how big was the giant moa? How do you notate the birdsong of the Tūī? What was life like as a beekeeper in New Zealand at the turn of the twentieth century? These questions and more are answered in the volumes we’ve made available through our partnership with the Biodiversity Heritage Library, a Smithsonian Institution project that brings together some of the most important works in botany, zoology, archaeology, geology and other aspects of the natural sciences.

We are grateful to the C & L Gregory Trust for funding this digitisation project.

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Flickr

Flickr

Need a new wallpaper for your computer or phone? Want to dazzle and surprise your friends and co-workers with a new Zoom background? We’ve uploaded more than 2,000 of our favourite collection images to our Flickr account. All of them are free to re-use for any purpose. From toy cars to butterflies to miniature busts, there’s something here for everyone.

Hot tip: check out our Google Chrome extension that displays these photos in every new tab you open!

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Digitised Publications

Online Exhibitions