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  • Jamie Jacobs: Looking backward and forward: Turnbull House enters its second century

    Taiwhanga Kauhau – Auditorium National Library Wellington 70 Molesworth Street, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand

    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.

    Free. Koha from non-members appreciated.

  • Charles Ferrall: South by South: New Zealand and the heroic age of antarctic exploration

    Taiwhanga Kauhau – Auditorium National Library Wellington 70 Molesworth Street, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand

    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.

    Free. Koha from non-members appreciated

  • Founder Lecture 2026: Catherine Hammond – A Thousand Words: Photographic Archives in Aotearoa

    Taiwhanga Kauhau – Auditorium National Library Wellington 70 Molesworth Street, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand

    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.