DescriptionHocken Collections celebrate te Taiao the natural environments of Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific and Antarctica with special emphasis on southern New Zealand.
This collection continues Dr Hocken’s enduring interest in the landscape and charts evolving perspectives and representations of te Taiao from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Examples of landscape painting and photography, maps and plans, climate and weather data, periodicals, very substantial scientific holdings on geology and geomorphology, and information about gardening, farming, surveying and mining are all well represented in the collection and a selection of these are presented here.Collection SummaryPhotographs, artworks, ephemera, and archives relating to our natural environment