Nau mai, haere mai - welcome to

Our Health Journeys

New Zealand’s e-museum of healthcare history

Meet extraordinary kiwis from the eminent to the everyday, discover our place in the world of medical innovation.

Preserving the past
informing the future

Our vision, our goals, and the role of philanthropic support in sustaining this work.

Heart-stopping moments

A groundbreaking kiwi cardiac team began mending broken hearts by stopping them dead.

The shape of school goes fluid

A teacher's observation of connections crumbling during lockdown.

Plastic surgery

Find out how his small island nation at the bottom of the world played a crucial role in the development of this innovative form of service surgery.

If I only had a heart

This big hearted elephant had a fatty problem.

Pātea's iron lung

Visit Whanganui Regional Museum to learn how polio affected this region.