Archives New Zealand

Archives New Zealand acts as the memory of government. We ensure that there is an authentic and reliable record of government and we preserve and provide access to these archives. Read More…

The constitution room in the Wellington Office will be closed on Saturdays and open from 10am - 4pm during weekdays.

Exhibitions

An Impressive Silence – Public Memory and Personal Experience of the Great War	Passchendaele Casualty Forms
War Art Online	The Treaty of Waitangi
Declaration of Independence 1835	Women’s Suffrage

New!

• An Impressive Silence an exhibition to commemorate 90 years since the Armistice to end World War One on now at Archives New Zealand’s Wellington office.
• Digital Continuity Strategy — only one week left to comment.
• Archives New Zealand is currently undertaking a project to digitise the Social Security passenger lists so they will be able to be accessed via the web.
• Go underground on the new Auckland Gallery and check out the plans for a railway link beneath central Auckland from 1929-76.
• A Deed of Settlement between the Crown and Taranaki Whānui was signed this morning, 19 August 2008.