Jamie Jacobs: Looking backward and forward: Turnbull House enters its second century
Join Jamie Jacobs from Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga as he shares the story of Turnbull House and what’s ahead for this historic building.

Join Jamie Jacobs from Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga as he shares the story of Turnbull House and what’s ahead for this historic building.
Dr de Hamel, world-leading authority on mediaeval manuscripts, will talk to members of the Friends of the Turnbull in an address entitled: “The Migrant: Christopher de Hamel on how he and De Musica came to the Turnbull”. He will talk about the Boethius, De Musica, which is the only mediaeval MS bought by Alexander Turnbull himself.
Join Charles Ferrall as he talks about his most recent book, ‘South by South: New Zealand and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration’, which draws on the Library’s Joseph Kinsey collection.
In the 2026 Founder Lecture Catherine Hammond will discuss the role and impact of photographic archives as complex repositories of memory and research, drawing on her career working with artists archives in major cultural institutions in Aotearoa over the past two decades.