Matapihi is your window onto the places, events and people of Aotearoa New Zealand.
About Matapihi
Use Matapihi to find selected items from the digital heritage collections of these participating organisations:
- Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa
- Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
- Auckland City Libraries Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero
- Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira
- Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
- Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga-o-Ōtautahi
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
- New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
- New Zealand Film Archive Ngā Kaitiaki O Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua
- Otago Museum
- Puke Ariki
- Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, Ministry for Culture and Heritage
- The University of Auckland Library
- University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha
- University of Otago Library, including Hocken Collections
Most of the items on Matapihi are about New Zealand, made in New Zealand or created by New Zealanders. Geography, history, the natural environment, people and events are all featured.
Matapihi is not owned by the Library but we play a lead role in the management and promotion of the service.
Access items on Matapihi
Matapihi features digital copies of photographs, drawings, paintings, sculpture and museum objects, as well as sound and video files, and text items.
For example, if you search for ‘tuatara’ you will find:
- historical film footage showing a tuatara, recorded in 1934
- a rotatable 3D view of a museum specimen
- photographs of live tuatara at the Auckland zoo
- a link to an explanation of the history of tuatara research in New Zealand
- a poster advertising the Flying Nun music compilation Tuatara on LP from 1985.
