Wikipedia:GLAM/Auckland Museum

• Auckland Museum Wiki Work Plan 2025-2026
• Auckland Museum Wikimedia Partnership Statistics
• Wikimedia Commons Category: Images from Auckland Museum

Founded in 1852, Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s oldest and most significant museums. The Museum tells the story of Aotearoa New Zealand, its place in the Pacific and its people. Our collections span human history, natural sciences and documentary heritage which comprise of three million objects and counting. Each telling a story that helps interpret, understand, and illuminate the history of Aotearoa  and reflects the diversity of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

Auckland Museum’s collections are open access by default, closed by exception. These exceptions include content depicting Māori and Pacific subjects and taonga. See more about our Museum’s cultural permissions guidelines on Wikimedia platforms here.

Auckland Museum has been engaging with Wikimedia since 2017 and currently has two Wikimedians in Residence.

Marty Blayney, User:Prosperosity started in 2021, initially funded by a Wikicite Grant to help unlock the potential knowledge held within Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland Museum’s academic outputs and research publications. In 2023, Marty worked on the Aotearoa New Zealand local histories project, developing Wikipedia content on local suburbs and areas around Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, funded by a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation.

In September 2024, Anjuli Selvadurai, User:Winnieswikiworld began a full time Wikimedian in Residence position funded by Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand. This role has a focus on community outreach, organising and mentoring the Wikipedia summer student programme and engaging with other Auckland GLAMs.

Auckland Museums Online Collections Data Analyst, Brodie Satherley, User:Dactylantha supports the uploads of the Museum’s openly licensed imagery and associated catalogue data through batch-uploading projects on Wikimedia Commons. She has also been exploring the integration and alignment of internal authorities alongside Wikidata authority items, along with other data experiments and efforts to enable data round-tripping between Wikidata and Auckland Museum’s Online Collections.

The team managed by Online Collections Information and Partnerships Manager James Taylor, User:Jetaynz.

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