Browse Collections (62 total)

A sample of the works by Joseph Jenner Merrett held in Hocken Collections.

A sample of the works by Ralph Hotere held in Hocken Collections.

A sample of the works by James Brown held in Hocken Collections.

A sample of the works by Doris Lusk (1916-1990) held in Hocken Collections.

Colin McCahon is recognized as one of New Zealand’s foremost painters for his inventive and visionary contribution to art. He lived from 1919 to…

These historiated initials were created by William Cowper for his atlas of human myology, the Myotomia Reformata. Cowper was an 18th-century London…

Images of China and Japan, 1570 to 1920.

West Meets East is based on a physical exhibition curated by Special Collections, that was on display…

‘A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see.’ - Dr…

12 September - 28 November 2002 ~ de Beer Gallery
Central Library, University of Otago

Through the last five hundred years, ancient ruins have…

Joseph William Mellor (1869-1938) was an Otago graduate who became a ceramicist, a cartoonist, and, more importantly, a famous chemist. Indeed, his…

Sheet music relating to WWI (1914-1918)

Hocken Collections' sheet music relating to The Great War of 1914-1918 (WWI) is a select group of (mostly)…

Images from the Scientific Expedition Reports held in Special Collections at the University of Otago.

The School of Physiotherapy is immensely proud of the contribution its graduates have made to health in the wider community over the 100 years since…

The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new…

Examples of posters from the Hocken Collections.

The classicist Richard Hingley wrote ‘the Classical past retains a highly significant relationship to the present’. It is true that no cultural…