The all new Kōtuia ngā Kete website has now launched. Formerly the NZ Museums community at nzmuseums.co.nz and on eHive, the new site brought to us by the National Services Te Paerangi team at Te Papa Tongarewa brings a new look and improved ways to connect Aotearoa New Zealand’s cultural collections.

Details for your organisation’s profile are still managed through your eHive account so make sure you’re up to date!

We’re continually making changes to the eHive platform to make it better for you to use. Over the past few months we’ve worked on a few key areas. Firstly, if you are a WordPress plugin user, the eHive plugins have all had an overhaul to bring them in line with some of the technology changes introduced across the WordPress environment.

We have also made a subtle change to how indexing works enabling any Object names which feature macrons to appear in the correct alphabetical order.

Finally, after many years of hinting, we have removed the old ‘eHive ID’ method of logging into eHive. This means logging in is now via email address and password only. The eHive team did a little happy dance, but if you do have any issues logging in, please get in touch with us and we’re always happy to help!

The Canterbury Centre for Historic Photography and Film Incorporates The Museum of Photography at Ferrymead and is based at The Ferrymead Heritage Park in Christchurch New Zealand…

The Centre is a Non-Profit Organization and their objective is the Collection and Preservation of the unique photographic heritage of New Zealand, especially of the Canterbury Region.
The museum displays a large array of antique and vintage camera and photographic equipment, plus lots of interesting images and early photograph collections.
Donations of old cameras, photographs, negatives or related items are always welcome.

We’re excited to announce our first eHive User Group meeting will be happening next month on Thursday 30th March at 3pm NZT. We’ll have news on upcoming changes, two speakers sharing insights into their cataloguing projects and be asking you for your ideas.

Register to attend by following the link below

We’re continually making changes to the eHive platform to make it better for you to use. Over the past few months we’ve updated the text associated with the rights status of your objects to make it clearer to understand and more in line with best practice globally.

We have added the ability to search for the date a record was created when using the Advanced Search option.

Finally if you’re on a Silver plan or above, you’ll have access to analytics on your account. We’ve made some changes behind the scenes to keep it in line with changes Google is making to its Analytics tools. It all looks the same to you but now seamlessly combines the data from older data and new into one set of information for you.

The Health Museum is currently supported by the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Central Adelaide Local Health Networks. It is run by the CALHN Health Museum team who are supported by dedicated volunteers working in all areas from collection management and conservation to digitization.

The CALHN Health Museum is responsible for the medical history of CALHN institutions. Currently this includes Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA Dental, SA Pathology, Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre and The Queen Elisabeth Hospital, plus some private collections as well.

Through its exhibits, educational programs, and public events, the CALHN Health Museum assists in a greater understanding and appreciation of the medical and health care history to past and present employees, students, academic community, and the general public. The CALHN Health Museum also provides research opportunities through the use of its artefacts, manuscripts, images and library collections.

We have introduced further functionality into the Advanced Search function. Advanced Search is now available on the public eHive.com website, and new search fields and search filters have been added.

You can find out more this function in the article describing the release and by using our Help guide on advanced searching.

The NZ Museums portal will soon become Kōtuia ngā Kete and as part of those upcoming changes we have been working with National Services Te Pareangi to introduce a Collections Strength and Region function to your profile page.

You can update these details by visiting your Settings > Account Profile and editing your Account Profile Details.

Over the past few months we have introduced a number of changes to the system. There are now public and private search facets for Cultural Permissions, Collection Strengths, Country and Region.

We have simplified the data structure behind the scenes to speed up the view and save process, and you can now change your Catalogue Type as you work on an object.

We have updated the public searching on collections (eHive accounts) to exclude those with no contact information and we have made some changes to the technology which serves your images to the internet.

Finally we have updated Help content on eHive fields to give more detail and better examples.

Glasgow Women’s Library is the only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s lives, histories and achievements, with a lending library, archive collections and innovative programmes of public events & learning opportunities.

Our collection of museum artefacts champions, celebrates and teaches us about how women have shaped lives locally, nationally and internationally. The objects, all donated, chart women’s historical and contemporary achievements and contributions, contextualising the connections across the many spheres that women inhabit within the ‘personal’ and the ‘political.’ The collections include Suffragette memorabilia, radical feminist campaigning materials, girls’ annuals, recipe books, knitting patterns, badges and protest banners, contemporary artworks, rare books, LGBTQ+ t-shirts and the National Museum of Roller Derby!

We have introduced the ability to assign cultural permissions levels to objects in your collection. Cultural permissions allow you to provide further knowledge about an object to inform users of your collections about any cultural significances they may have. It’s a great way to provide appropriate care and protection for taonga you are caring for, as well as a tool to avoid inappropriate use of traditional knowledge.

You can find out more about how to work with cultural permissions for your collections through our new help article

The facilities options on your public profile page allow you to record and display them to the public. We have extended the list of options available to you including options for educational programs, EV charging, free Wi-Fi and more.

We renamed ‘Copyright’ to ‘Rights’ and added the option to assign ‘No Rights Reserved’ to an object. This makes it a Creative Commons CC0 licensed object and available to be shared freely.

In 2019 we introduced the option to log into eHive using an email address and password. Almost all eHive users now use this method, so we’ll be retiring the old ‘eHive ID login’ option on the log in page in October. If you’re still using an eHive ID, not an email address, to log in at present then you’ll see a warning when you log in, along with options for switching to log in with an email address from now on. You’ll need to switch to the email-based login as soon as you can.

The Museum covers the history of the Western district of Southland encompassing Riverton and its environ. Includes all aspects of colonial life starting with Maori and the whalers, through to the development of the town to the 1930’s, spanning over 100 years. Also on display are military items and natural history collections. Part of the museum is housed in the historic courthouse.

eHive is now on YouTube where we will be sharing videos about the eHive product and how to use it.

We’ve started with a product overview from our CEO Paul Rowe covering the public and private interfaces, communities, WordPress websites and integration with national collections.

Join over 900 Partner Institutions from around Australia

Trove brings together amazing collections from Australian libraries, universities, museums, galleries, and archives. It’s free and available online all day, every day. It is a collaboration between the National Library of Australia and hundreds of Partner organisations around Australia.

Last year eHive members were offered a trial which has now been extended. If eHive members sign up for a trial with Trove before 1 June 2023, they will not have to pay the joining fees.

The West Highland Museum tells the story of the Scottish Highlands and the Islands. It aims to cover every aspect of West Highland history, including that of Fort William, where it is located in a listed building in the centre of the town. It also hosts other exhibits for archaeology and wildlife.