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The classicist Richard Hingley wrote ‘the Classical past retains a highly significant relationship to the present’. It is true that no cultural…
Contributors: Various collectors
View the items in Maths, Politics & Concrete: The Legacy of the Classical World. Online exhibition
This is a sample of ephemera from the Hocken Collections.
View the items in Ephemera from the Hocken Collections
The School of Physiotherapy is immensely proud of the contribution its graduates have made to health in the wider community over the 100 years since…
View the items in Reaching Out: Celebrating 100 years of Otago Physiotherapy Graduates, 1913-2013. Online exhibition
Images from the Scientific Expedition Reports held in Special Collections at the University of Otago.
Contributors: Special Collections - University of Otago
View the items in Scientific Expedition Reports - Special Collections
The rare book collection in Special Collections at the University of Otago grows - slowly and surely - by purchase and donation. With these new…
View the items in Rare Delights III: Recent Additions to Special Collections. Online Exhibition
The phrase 'Make it New' is frequently used in defining a key feature of modernism – its novelty – and is often regarded as influential and…
View the items in Make It New! Modernism & the Medieval Presence. Online exhibition
‘A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see.’ - Dr…
View the items in Viva l'Italia: A Regional Romp through Italy. Online exhibition
Botany is a 21st century subject built on a rich heritage contributed to and developed by many. Although botany was taught at the University of Otago…
Contributors: Various Collectors
View the items in Botany: Our Heritage, Our Future. A Celebration of Teaching and Research at the University of Otago. Online Exhibition
Sheet music relating to WWI (1914-1918) Hocken Collections' sheet music relating to The Great War of 1914-1918 (WWI) is a select group of (mostly)…
View the items in Sheet music of World War I
Joseph William Mellor (1869-1938) was an Otago graduate who became a ceramicist, a cartoonist, and, more importantly, a famous chemist. Indeed, his…
View the items in The World of Joseph W. Mellor (1869-1938): Chemist, Ceramicist & Cartoonist. Online exhibition.
View the items in Aliens, Androids, & Unicorns: The Hal Salive Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection. Online exhibition
Contributors: Special Collections, University of Otago
View the items in Manuscripts held in Special Collections
View the items in Black + White + Grey. The Lives + Works of Eric Gill + Robert Gibbings. Online exhibition
Examples of twentieth century food packaging from the Hocken Collections.
View the items in Food, drink, and other products packaging
Contributors: Various
View the items in The Melrose Library: Reflecting the Life and Works of Sir F. Truby King
Examples of architectural drawings from the Hocken Collections.
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Examples of posters from the Hocken Collections.
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View the items in By Land & By Sea: Scientific Expedition Reports in Special Collections from 1826 to the 1960s. Online exhibition
View the items in Fashion Rules OK. Online exhibition
Posters from exhibitions in the gallery of the Hocken Collections.
View the items in Exhibition posters from the Hocken Collections
View the items in Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Examples of the songsters by colonial-era lyricist and satirical wit Charles R. Thatcher held at Hocken Collections.
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View the items in Plates of Birds Collected during the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger, 1873-1876
Contributors: Dartmouth Book Arts Workshop; Special Collections, University of Otago
View the items in A Letterpress Legacy: The Dartmouth College Book Arts Workshop. Online exhibition
Contributors: Special Collections; various
View the items in Keeping it in the Family: British and Irish Literary Generations, 1770-1930. Online exhibition