Special Collections is thrilled to have Colin McCahon’s 1959 painting Landscape through a Victorian window on display in the Reading Room.Read more…
Drawing lessons from Rewi Thompson
The work of Rewi Thompson (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa) and his legacy as a teacher and indigenous architect of international renown is explored in the new book ‘Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere’. Read more…
University of Auckland 140 years: First four professors
To mark the 140th anniversary of the opening of Auckland University College (AUC), Special Collections has taken a closer look at the appointment and careers of the first four professors.Read more…
University of Auckland 140th Anniversary: Orientation
To coincide with Orientation Week, Special Collections has put together a display celebrating this important and fun part of the university year.Read more…
BSANZ 2021 Conference: Communities, books and the power of words
Interested in studies about books, authors, publishing, readers and related topics? Registrations are open for the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand 2021 virtual conference, 22-23 November. Read more…
Robin Hyde’s papers receive UNESCO recognition
The papers of Robin Hyde, held by Special Collections, and the Alexander Turnbull Library, have been inscribed on UNESCO’s New Zealand Memory of the World Register. Special Collections is marking this occasion with the exhibition ‘torrents of amber’.Read more…
Philcox architecture archive: Builder of handsome edifices
The architectural drawings collection of W. Philcox and Sons provides a unique insight into an Auckland building firm from the turn of the 20th century. Search the new collection listing.Read more…
Choose: having your say
A new Special Collections display in the General Library dips into an extensive election ephemera archive to look at two significant, historic referenda issues.Read more…
Display celebrates 50 years of the Archive of Māori and Pacific Sound
View the display Celebrating 50 years of the Archive of Māori and Pacific Sound, 1970 – 2020, at Special Collections in the General Library until Friday 3 April.Read more…
Te Vāiaho o te Gagana Tokelau – Tokelau Language Week
Critical Encounters Tuia 250
Daniel Solander-inspired exhibition and seminar
Customary meets contemporary in whakapapa-inspired artwork
Play it loud
Post-Object Art collection display
Altered books: Fine Arts Library Artist Books collection
End of First World War centenary project
First World War armistice: Clear the line
James Walter Chapman-Taylor display
Furniture by New Zealand architects
We, the undersigned
Wedding music at the Music and Dance Library
Paid for in blood: Medical rare books display
Open homes: New Zealand domestic architecture
Celebrating the 2018 Auckland Arts Festival
The ClockTower: a winning design
Resonating through the decades: the From Scratch records
You never know who you’ll meet at university
School of Architecture and Planning Centenary: 8. Essentiality and Sensibility
School of Architecture and Planning Centenary: 7. The Technical Detail
Ngā Kura Māori: The Native Schools System 1867-1969
School of Architecture and Planning Centenary: 6. Beautiful Theses: Students as Book Designers
Launch of Chinese rare books catalogue
100 Years of Architecture and Planning
School of Architecture Centenary: 5. Architecture + Photography
School of Architecture Centenary: 4. The Glossies
“The First Girl Graduates”: The legacy of Kate Edger
Matariki
Miss Butterfield’s busy year
From Crack of Dawn to Croak of Dusk: The Solar Plexus records
School of Architecture Centenary: 3. Observe and Record
‘The Balloon of the Mind’: Yeats, Donnelly and Cuala Press
School of Architecture Centenary: 2. The Civic
100 years/100 books : School of Architecture Centenary, 1917-2017 Library Exhibition Series #2 THE CIVIC Welcome to the second instalment in this series celebrating ‘the architecture book’. Curated by Michael Milojevic, School of Architecture and Planning Professional Teaching Fellow; SarahRead more…
School of Architecture Centenary
Two displays, two cartoonists: Steve Bell and Frank Dromgoole
A clean slate
Little books
New Zealand prisoners of war 1914-1918
Historic Rangitoto baches
Display of Sir Hugh Kawharu papers
Sitting pretty
Architects’ tools from the Architecture Archive
Now showing: A history of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Building blocks to develop engineers of the future
Art and houses
A selection of books exploring the themes of housing and real estate are on display at the Fine Arts Library from our Main and Special Collections. The selection includes Wanted: Home, an artist book by Meiling Lee documenting house exteriorsRead more…