Auckland War Memorial Museum is the home of Auckland’s collective remembering and commemoration. In recent years, public interest in war memory and commemoration has increased considerably and we have seen a rise in research and scholarship on the cultural legacy of war.
The Museum’s documentary heritage collection, which includes photographs and manuscripts, is often the first port of call for researchers, but the object collection also offers rich research potential and a plethora of stories for those who work to unlock it.
Auckland Museum was successful in an application to the Lotteries Environment Heritage Grant to gain funding to process (catalogue, describe, photograph, pack and store) the 21st Battalion Association collection. These grants support projects that help protect, conserve or care for our natural, cultural and physical heritage, or allow us to better understand and access these resources.
Image: Gate from the 21st Battalion clubrooms, selected by Associate Curator, History, Gail Romano, as one of her favourite objects from the collection; 2019.62.354, © Auckland Museum CC BY