In 1865, a grand exhibition, the first of its type in New Zealand, was staged in Dunedin.
One of the largest knitting pattern collections within a New Zealand institution is held in the Hocken Collections at the University of Otago.
Given our Covid-19 pandemic experience, it’s worth looking back a century to New Zealand’s previous encounter with a worldwide pandemic.
Local music histories are marked with stories of lost bands, forgotten songs and musicians that nearly made it.
An artist’s journals provide rare insights, writes Anna Blackman.
One of three works by Michael Illingworth (1932-1988) in the Hocken Pictorial Collections is The Painter and the Poet, from 1965.
The familiar motif of our fellow animals decorates work at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, writes Lucy Hammonds.
The impulse to collect and hold on to an object might be for entirely logical reasons, or sometimes we are driven purely by our emotions.
Italian glass on the Theomins' dining table tells a tale of Venice, Jenny Longstaff writes.
Dame Louise Henderson was born in Paris at the beginning of La Belle Epoch (The Golden Age) at the turn of the 20th-century.
Visitors to Toitu’s exhibition galleries now pass under the outstretched wings of Toroa, the centrepiece of an impressive carved gateway, or waharoa, recently unveiled at the museum.
Oceans are important. Two exhibitions at Otago Museum explain why.
Last month, the Dunedin Public Art Gallery opened "Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys", an exhibition curated by Mary Kisler and toured by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.
Almost from the beginning, coins were decorated on their obverse (the "heads" side) with designs, some abstract or geometric, other naturalistic in the form of all manner of animals and insects - about 100 types are now known.
We take our modern bathroom amenities for granted these days, but you can see how innovative the facilities at Olveston were for the times.
There's a lot going on in the background of the Hocken's photographic collection, writes Jen Anderson.
The Dunedin Public Art Gallery's new collection show, Style & Substance, looks at the way artists have responded to different genre systems throughout the history of art.
The Dunedin Public Art Gallery has recently acquired two works by Australian artist Rebecca Baumann following her residency and exhibition, "Untitled (exploded view)".
When World War 1 broke out in 1914, Scottish organisations all over New Zealand petitioned the government to form a Scottish kilted unit as part of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.
In 1979, the Hocken received an outstanding gift from Colin and Anne McCahon of a 1.8m high kauri sculpture by Invercargill-born artist, ceramist and teacher Alison Duff.