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Our staff play a vital role in acquiring and preserving a vast collection of specimens to help scientists answer critical questions about the natural world. Learn more here!

Saving Auckland's Spotted Shag

Saving Auckland's Spotted Shag

When Auckland Museum’s resident taxidermist, Mr Louis Griffin, collected (by shooting) spotted shags in the Hauraki Gulf in 1914 for a diorama he could not have known that by doing so he would indirectly contribute to the conservation of the same species over 100 years later.

Super-sized butterflies

Super-sized butterflies

A relative close to home

A relative close to home

Digitising Moa

Digitising Moa

Into the snake pit

Into the snake pit