Robert Burns, immortalised as Scotland's favourite son, never lived in Dunedin, but his nephew, the Rev Thomas Burns, was the spiritual leader and first minister of the city's Scottish Free Church settlement.
Dunedin Public Library rare books curator Anthony Tedeschi has put together a 49-piece display, "A Man's a Man for a' That", made up of items from the library's heritage collection.
Two of his favorite items were collections of Scottish airs owned by Burns, published in 1794 and 1795, just before his 1796 death.
It also includes an original manuscript, hand-written by Burns for Mrs Elizabeth Kemble, an British actress whom he saw perform on stage.
The exhibition, in the Reed Gallery at the Moray Pl public library, opened last night and will run until April 19.
