Book collectors

A chapter on book collectors, in Kevin Maslen, Ross Harvey and Penny Griffith, eds., Book & print in New Zealand: a guide to print culture in Aotearoa.

Elvis Presley Museum

The website of the Elvis Presley Museum in Hāwera.

Fred Butler – eccentric man of mystery

The story of Taranaki collector Fred Butler, from Puke Ariki museum in New Plymouth.

The Les and Milly Paris family collection

A 1977 article from Art New Zealand magazine on Wellington art collectors Les and Milly Paris.

Clarke, Philip. To have & to hold: making collections. Auckland: Objectspace, 2009.

Duff, Roger, ed. No sort of iron: culture of Cook’s Polynesians: a Cook bicentenary exhibition organized by the Art Galleries and Museums’ Association of New Zealand, 9 October 1969 to 30 June 1970: souvenir handbook. Christchurch: Art Galleries and Museums’ Association of New Zealand, 1969.

McCormick, E. H. The fascinating folly: Dr. Hocken and his fellow collectors. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1961.

McLeod, Rosemary. Thrift to fantasy: home textile crafts of the 1930s–1950s. Auckland: HarperCollins, 2005.

Wolfe, Richard. Moa: the dramatic story of the discovery of a giant bird. Auckland: Penguin, 2003.