Open daily 9.30am to 4.30pm (except Christmas Day, 25 December)
Entry to the Museum is FREE – but donations are welcome
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45 Harvard Ave, Wigram, Christchurch, New Zealand Phone: +64 3 371 9600
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Free Admission
Open daily 9.30am to 4.30pm (except Christmas Day)
Location: 45 Harvard Ave, Wigram
Phone: +64 3 371 9600
Our latest personal photo album features striking images belonging to fighter pilot Harold ‘Kiwi’ Beamish.
One of the first photo albums to be donated to our collection belonged to Stanley Edward Wilks mid (mentioned in despatches), NZ415429. A rather anonymous plain brown cover hides a trove of excellent photographs of operations by No. 226 Squadron RAF, sightseeing and recreation.
Many of us have old family photos stored away in albums or boxes at home. Most of us could probably identify our relatives in them, even when they were young children. But how often do we not know much, if anything, about the context behind these photos: where were they taken? When? By whom?
The Avro 626 on display at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand is a very unique aircraft with an interesting story: it is the only fully-intact surviving aircraft operated by the RNZAF before World War Two.
We are really thrilled to announce that for the first time ever, researchers will be able to browse digitised parts of our photograph collection, online.
Our Keeper of Photographs, Matthew O’Sullivan takes us through an example of conserving a photo negative from the collection.
What’s in the background? Find out more about this photo from our Keeper of Photographs.
In 1959 an RNZAF Sunderland was damaged and eventually abandoned on the remote Chatham Islands east of New Zealand. In this blog, we explore the story of that incident, using recently-digitised historic photographs from our archives.
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