2022 News
News from the Turnbull Endowment Trust in 2022:
31 October 2022 |
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Ross Harris: Lilburn Lecture 2022 |
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Esteemed New Zealand composer and musician Ross Harris, QSM, will traverse his life and musical career, from lecturing with Douglas Lilburn to leading a klezmer band in the annual Lilburn Lecture at the National Library of New Zealand in Wellington... Read more... |
28 June 2022 |
5 July 2022 |
14 July 2022 |
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Friends of the Turnbull Library: Founder Lecture 2022 |
Nick Bollinger named as Lilburn Research Fellow 2023 |
Turnbull Trust Centenary Review |
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The Founder Lecture 2022 was delivered by the Rt Hon Dame Cindy Kiro, GNZM, QSO, Governor General of New Zealand... Read more... |
Writer, musician, and broadcaster Nick Bollinger has been awarded the prestigious Lilburn Research Fellowship for 2023... Read more... |
We are delighted to present the Turnbull Trust Centenary Review... Read more... |
28 May 2022 |
3 June 2022 |
28 June 2022 |
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Footrot Flats comic strips to be cared for in perpetuity at the Turnbull |
Turnbull Endowment Trust: Transition into the next 100 years |
Turnbull Endowment Trust: Celebrating collaboration |
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A little ‘Slice of Heaven’ was donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library this week by the family of the late cartoonist Murray Ball....... Read more... |
The Alexander Turnbull Library centenary activities were activated in 2018 by a donation of $100,000 by the Trust to seed fund two centenary exhibitions, celebrating the collections of the Library. ...... Read more... |
The 28th of June commemorates the anniversary of Alexander Turnbull’s death and celebrates the opening day of the library two years later in 1920........ Read more... |
10 May 2022 |
12 May 2022 |
25 May 2022 |
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Students to learn about Alexander Turnbull library’s treasure trove 100 years on |
Moving Sir Robert Stout |
William Harding: Photographic Portrait Exhibition opens |
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Trust donates Te Kupenga – 101 Stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull to every secondary school nationwide...... Read more... |
How do we relocate a large heritage painting with various condition issues including warping of the painting and frame to a destination where it can receive specialist care? ...... Read more... |
Sixty reproductions, at a scale much larger than William Harding’s original glass plate negatives, are on display at the National Library, allowing us a chance to get close to a diverse cast of characters....... Read more... |
2 April 2022 |
6 April 2022 |
May 2022 |
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The White Terraces have returned |
Open to view with thanks |
Music Month 2022 |
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Guide Sophia would, I am sure, have been grateful to her whānau for enabling the treatment of the Charles Blomfield, now returned to the Alexander Turnbull Library...... Read more... |
During a visit to the vaults in 2020, a question was posed to our curator: “Does the library hold any works in three dimensions?” Dr Oliver Stead lifted the lid on the Anthony Stones busts and a two-year journey into the diversity of the curios collection began...... Read more... |
For this year’s NZ Music Month, the Alexander Turnbull Library’s music specialists wrote a selection of blogs about recent music activities and projects....... Read more... |
22 February 2022 |
1 March 2022 |
28 March 2022 |
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From a hikoi to a sprint, passing the baton |
Writers in Bronze at the Turnbull Gallery |
Bright Future for Turnbull House |
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November 2021 marked the end of the Turnbull Library’s three-year centennial celebration...... Read more... |
The internationally renowned New Zealand sculptor Anthony Stones (1934-2016), sculptor of the outstanding statue of former Prime Minister Peter Fraser outside the Old Government Building, created a marvellous collection of bronze busts of 11 of New Zealand’s most famous historians, poets and writers...... Read more... |
The future of historic Turnbull House, original home of the Alexander Turnbull Library, is finally assured, thanks to the Government’s ongoing commitment to retaining this key heritage building in central Wellington..... Read more... |
15 February 2022 |
15 February 2022 |
1 March 2022 |
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Delays to meeting up ☹ but connecting none the less |
Lilburn awards – 2020 recipient updates |
Coming up in the Turnbull Gallery |
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Sadly, our celebratory event has been postponed from the 16th of February until an undetermined date in the future. We have not been able to meet for such a time, but look forward to reconnecting when we do..... Read more... |
Providing New Zealand music resources to students and performers is the focus of two inaugural Lilburn Research Awards, granted to Mathew Hoyes and Michael Vinten..... Read more... |
The internationally renowned New Zealand sculptor Anthony Stones (1934-2016), sculptor of the outstanding statue of former Prime Minister Peter Fraser outside the Old Government Building, created a marvellous collection of bronze busts of 11 of New Zealand’s most famous historians, poets and writers.... Read more... |
12 February 2022 |
14 February 2022 |
14 February 2022 |
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Willpower: A little for perpetuity.. |
Connecting to the Turnbull Collection from home |
The impact of your gift… |
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The Baby Boomer generation, often defined as those born between 1946 and 1964, is about to leave ‘the greatest transference of wealth in history’, to the next generation..... Read more... |
The collections of the National Library Te Puna Mātauranga and the Alexander Turnbull Library aren’t just books and manuscripts; they also hold a large (and rapidly growing) collection of digital and digitised content, much of which you can access from home..... Read more... |
The Turnbull Endowment Trust’s impact throughout 2021-22 has been astonishing. A Century of Wonder, Te Kupenga, Pukana on Tour and Paintings in Perpetuity are familiar to our whanau.... Read more... |
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