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Digital outreach: Te Papa collections around the webNgā toronga matihiko: Ngā kohinga o Te Papa puta noa i te ipurangi

Can’t get to Te Papa? Find and use openly-licensed collection images and data on sites like Wikipedia, Unsplash, and GBIF. We share what we hold so you can easily find it in the places you’re already visiting.

We’re sharing our knowledge too, by making existing research articles available and creating original new content for external sites.

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Beyond our digital walls

We share open collections, data, and knowledge around the web. Here’s why we do this and where to find us.

Collections API

Get data about our collections to use in research, creative work, or websites with our collections API.

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DigitalNZ

DigitalNZ helps you find, use and share digital content from and about Aotearoa New Zealand all at once, including Te Papa’s digitised collections.

Find 274,000+ of our items on DigitalNZ

Members of a Tuvalu dance group, focused on a man in sunglasses.

Digital Pasifik

Digital Pasifik lets you find digital content from throughout the Pacific, and makes it easy to explore by region and country.

Browse 12,740+ of our items on Digital Pasifik

Google Arts & Culture

Originally the Google Art Project, Arts & Culture is a massive collection of creative works and other gorgeous objects. You can explore using tags for creators, places and materials, or play with browsing by colour.

Explore 5,000+ of our images on Google Arts & Culture

Te Papa specimens mapped onto New Zealand.

GBIF

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) brings together data about living creatures – specimens in collections and observations in nature – from around the world in a standardised format.

Get 250,000+ of our botanical records on GBIF

Wikipedia projects

We contribute to the ecosystem of Wikipedia and connected sites to share collections and knowledge, as well as make improvements to our own data.

Check out our Wiki project page

Microscopic pollen image of Myosotis saxatilis.

Wikimedia Commons

We've added collection images to Wiki Commons to make them available for use in Wikipedia articles and more.

Explore thousands of our images on Wiki Commons

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Artstor

JSTOR's digital image library gathers out of copyright images from museums, archives, academics and artists, making them easier to find and use for education and research.

Browse 46,000+ of our images on Artstor

Unsplash

Images on Unsplash can easily be added to your creative project or digital workspace. Get them from the website or directly in applications like Photoshop, Figma, and Trello.

Get hundreds of our images from Unsplash

Covid-19 face mask made with tapa cloth.

Clothing the Pandemic

A virtual exhibition of Covid-19 face masks from around the world, reflecting joy, heroism, activism, cultural pride, and hope.

Browse over 100 masks from us and other museums

Watercolour World

Showing the world as it was seen before photography, Watercolour World has beautiful landscapes, ships, portraits and more, much of it mapped.

Find over a thousand of our images on Watercolour World

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Cultural Japan

An aggregator of digital content from and about Japan, Cultural Japan gets topical collections from us via the DigitalNZ API.

Explore hundreds of our images on Cultural Japan

Digital Transgender Archive

An online accessible hub gathering trans history in its many forms and expressions. We're currently working on sharing some of the beautiful trans-related collections we hold.

Check out thousands of pieces of trans history

Watercolour of the extinct bird Southern Merganser.

Tuhinga

Read our open-access and peer-reviewed journal, Tuhinga.