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Thu, 05 Oct 2017
If you had something to say to Antarctica, what would that be? Quite a few people actually have quite a lot to say, and the question is a surprisingly topical one for New Zealanders.
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John Sinclair's Homemade Camera
Fri, 22 Sep 2017
Body Beautiful
Fri, 11 Aug 2017
His Master's Voice
Wed, 07 Jun 2017
Online Exhibitions
Selling the Dream
Selling the Dream is a collection of world-class tourism posters promoting New Zealand’s unique attractions in an age before television and the Internet. Created by some of the country’s finest commercial artists, the themes promoted through the posters reveal New Zealand’s developing national identity in the early twentieth century.
