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New Zealand Images and Artworks Online

Titiromai - Looking at us!  HB Cultural Trust's image collection website.

Matapihi - a gateway into the online collection of a number of New Zealand cultural institutions.
Matapihi lets you search across online digital collections of the institutions listed below, plus others. 

Find moving images, photographs, drawings, paintings, sculpture, texts and some 3-d virtual museum objects, as well as a small number of sound files.


Auckland Art Gallery / Toi o Tämaki
View Over 12,000 works of art online.  May be browsed by themes or searched by keyword. 
Click here to browse the collection, then click on the tick beside "I accept these terms".

Te Papa Tongarewa / Museum of New Zealand
Over 800,000 images are available online in Te Papa's photographic collection at Images - Te Papa's Picture Library 

National Library of New Zealand -
Samples of items that have been on exhibition - images at Online Exhibitions.
Over 50,000 images from the Library’s collections are accessible online through Timesframes.

Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna o Waiwhetu
Collection Images - a selection from this new art gallery.

Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Collection Images may be searched by artist, artwork, medium or year.
Exhibitions - past, current & future exhibitions. 


Related links: http://www.nzmuseums.co.nz/


Grove Art Online Database

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Offering e xtensive coverage of world art, Grove Art Online is the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of art from prehistory to the present day.

Grove Art Online comprises the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, edited by Hugh Brigstocke (2001).

Covers the fine arts (painting, sculpture and architecture) and the decorative arts (ceramics, textiles, jewellery, interior design, furniture, glass, metalwork and more).

Thousands of signed articles on every aspect of the visual arts, art images and line drawings, plus image links from museums and other art sites.

Bbiographies of artists, architects, patrons, collectors, dealers, theorists, writers and scholars, can be searched by birth/death dates, places, nationality and occupation (in addition to name searches).


Art Prints for loan

Art prints are available for rental issue at the Hastings Central Library. 

These are displayed on the balcony and around the walls of the library.  Please ask at the Issues Desk if you would like to take one home.

Rental charges & issue periods>>

Art prints for loan from balcony Hastings Library
 

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