Favourite Collection Items – First Radio Hauraki Breakfast broadcast
We’ve asked staff to describe an item from the collection that they really like. Here’s Marketing and Communications Advisor David
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Archive Fives – Sound
What are the inner workings of an audiovisual archive? Who are the people that do the actual archiving? Archive Fives
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Paper cuts: paper-based audio tapes
Did you know some early audio recordings are stored on paper-based tape? Our sound archivist Grant McBride does and reports
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‘The Queen of Crime’ – Ngaio Marsh
Lacquer discs form the heart of the Ngā Taonga audio collection – we have thousands of them. They were the
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A hard life in the Gorge
Life doesn’t get much harder than it was in the Ōtaki Gorge at the start of last century. The land
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Archiving precious World War Two recordings
Imagine it’s the early 1940s and an Army truck crosses the sands of Northern Africa, comes to a halt and
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The earliest ‘Blue Smoke’ recording
Research in the Sound Archives at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision during New Zealand Music Month has confirmed a recording
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Music Month and the Guitar Parade
The lights go down and the crowd grows quiet. On stage are dozens of children and young people with guitars,
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‘Hostilities will cease…’ – Memories of the end of World War 1
Sarah Johnston has selected some recordings from the sound archive in which New Zealanders recall the end of World War One in November 1918.
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Te Anakura: a place of treasures
Access project developer Emma Richardson takes a look into the history of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision’s Wellington building, Te Anakura, and its place within Te Aro.
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