Ngā haora mahi | - Opening hours
Online and accessible 24/7

Te utu | - Admission
Free

Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua.
I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past.

Our Health Journeys is the national e-museum of healthcare history for Aotearoa New Zealand; a unique museum of medical heritage.

The Museum collects, records, and shares our diverse stories to ensure they are visible and accessible to a broad audience across the motu. Established by the Medical Museum Trust in 2014, the Museum first opened its doors in 2017 with Brave Hearts, a highly successful national travelling exhibition that profiled New Zealand’s key contribution to cardiac research and clinical care.

From this came the idea to create a different kind of museum in 2022, one that gathers our stories solely online and is able to reach all corners of Aotearoa New Zealand via its virtual presence. This enables us to move beyond the traditional museum form in our ability to be flexible, dynamic, and responsive to our broad array of visitors.

The Museum takes a contemporary approach to museum storytelling. We include stories and contributions from medical professionals, museums, organisations, and individuals around the country, and promote discussion about society and our national identity.

Come with us as we journey through the past and into the future, making connections, identifying parallels to the past, telling our stories, sharing our science, and celebrating our trailblazing people.

The Museum’s overarching purpose is to encourage a deeper understanding of New Zealand’s fascinating medical heritage, and an appreciation of the importance of medical science in our society.

We have links throughout the country to a range of regional and national museums with social history and medical collections. We are a volunteer-led organisation whose project team has extensive experience in museum practice, education, public health, evaluation, and governance.

Ngā momo kohinga -
Collection Strengths

Art

• Aotearoa art - Contemporary

Audiovisual

• Oral history

Military

Pacific cultures

Photography

• Contemporary photograph
• Historic photography

Natural history and sciences

• Biology

Social history

Taonga Māori

• Medicine (rongoa)

Technology

• Email address

  support@ourhealthmuseum.org.nz

• Website

  http://www.ourhealthmuseum.org.nz

• Staff details

  Laura Howard (Curator & Head of Content)
  
  Margaret Horsburgh (Co-Chair)
  Dale Bailey (Co-Chair)
  Patrick Alley (Trustee)
  Juliet Fleischl (Trustee)
  Jocelyn Peach (Trustee)