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Updates on Auckland Museum Summer Student Programme

Author: Winnieswikiworld

Summary: We are halfway through the 2025–2026 Summer Student programme based at Auckland Museum.

Wiki Summer Students talking to Auckland Museum librarian

Collaboration

The Auckland Museum summer student programme for 2025–2026 is well under way. The cohort of six students are being supervised by staff from Auckland Museum, Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT), the New Zealand Maritime Museum (NZMM) and The Fletcher Trust Archives. This year's programme expansion and collaboration with other Auckland GLAMs has supported more focused thematic research by students. Encouraging them to create and enrich Auckland local history content and fill knowledge gaps by utilising their institutions research and collections.

AM Summer Students with Head of Natural Sciences, Thomas Trnski

Some new articles

• Graneledone taniwha
• Ethel Richardson
• New Zealand troopship magazines from World War I
• Nautilus (motor launch)
• Quinlan Cottage
• Group Architects, New Zealand
• 1 Albert Street, Auckland
• Rodger Neich
• The Auckland Society of Arts (1870–2004)

Project pages

• Auckland Museum project page
• New Zealand Maritime Museum project page
• The Fletcher Trust Archives project page

Learning

While the students create and enrich content to support greater representation of Auckland local histories on Wikimedia, they have also had the opportunity to learn more about how Auckland Museum functions.

So far they have received talks and tours from Auckland Museum's Collection Information & Access team as well as the Collection Care, Documentary Heritage and Natural Sciences departments. They have also had a session about Teu Le Va, the Museum's Pacific dimension.

Outputs

As part of the studentship, each student is tasked to create at least 4-5 high quality articles based on their chosen topics which must fall within the topic of local histories of Tāmaki Makaurau.

They will also organise and host an edit-a-thon event in January 2026. During this event they will introduce, facilitate, train and support attendees in contributing to Wikipedia. The topic, scope and order of events are to be organised by the students.

At the end of the studentship, students will present their research and experiences in an in-person oral presentation. They will also submit a final report which covers their project and findings.

Follow the project page for weekly updates on the students work and programme activities.