Te Papa Collections Online

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand

Saga. Reynolds, Alan (artist), 1956. Reynolds, Alan. Purchased 1957. Reproduced courtesy of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa under a CC BY-NC-ND licence (1957-0027-1)

Description A descriptive note detailing the content and context of the digital collection.

The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is the national museum of New Zealand. Their collections online contain information of more than 500,000 works of art. Among them, more than 30,000 have downloadable images for reuse in high resolution. Users can search by keywords.

Collection Type Broad terms that define the type of digital collection

Museum Collections, Both Copyrighted and Public Domain Images

Subject Broad terms or phrases that describe, identify, or interpret the digital image collection and what it depicts or expresses. Values were obtained using the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) by the Getty Research Institute.

Armed conflicts, Ceramics (object genre), Costume Design, Culture, Design (discipline), Events (activities), Fashion Design, Histories (visual works), Landscapes (representations), Maori (culture or style), Natural history, Natural sciences, Nature, New Zealand, Oceanic, Photography (discipline), Textile Art, World Wars

Style Period Terms that define the styles, art periods, movements, etc. whose characteristics are represented in digital image collection. Values were obtained using the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) by the Getty Research Institute

British (modern), Contemporary, Maori (culture or style), Modern (style or period), Oceanic

Work Types Terms that identify the kinds of works in the digital collection being described. It typically refers to a work’s physical form, function, or medium in digital image collection. Values were obtained using the Thesaurus For Graphic Materials (TGM) by Library of Congress.

Archaeology, Armor, Arms & armament, Clothing & dress, Costumes, Drawings, Illustrations, Paintings, Photographs, Pottery, Prints, Specimens, Textiles

Openness Openness of the digital collection determined using the 4R activities by Wiley (2010).

Allow Reuse, Redistribute, Revise and Remix for educational and non-commercial purposes

Notes on Usage Additional notes on the terms of use on the digital images in the collection.

Images are loaded to the site are of three main types: “No known copyright restrictions“, “Creative Commons BY-NC-ND” and “All rights reserved“. The images can be used for educational or noncommercial purposes under Fair Dealing as defined under the the New Zealand Copyright Act 1994. Images on Creative Commons required attribution by including caption information and credit Te Papa as the image source:

e.g. Pressure sprayer, about 1910, New Zealand. A. & T. Burt, Ltd. Purchased 2008. Reproduced courtesy of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa under a CC BY-NC-ND licence (GH011797)

Please check their Rights and Licenses for full details before using images.

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