Hocken Collections (, formerly the Hocken Library) is a research library, historical archive, and art gallery based in Dunedin, New Zealand. Its library collection, which is of national significance, is administered by the University of Otago.

The Collections' specialist areas include items relating to the history of New Zealand and the Pacific, with specific emphasis on the Otago and Southland Regions. Open to the general public, the library is one of the country's most important historical research facilities.

Until 1965 the library was entirely housed in the Otago Museum. From that time its pictures collection and increasingly more of its other holdings were housed on other sites around the University of Otago's campus, the pictures being at the Central Library. In 1980 the collections were again brought together under one roof in the new Hocken Building (now renamed the Richardson Building), designed by E.J. McCoy. It soon outgrew that site and additional accommodation was secured at another site in Leith Street. It was reconsolidated on another site in 1998 in the Art Deco 1951 Otago Co-operative Dairy Company factory on Anzac Avenue, east of the main campus.

  • Charles Brasch Literary and Personal Papers. This collection was included as an entry on the register in 2013.
  • Dr Hocken's Church Missionary Society Records in 2014.
  • Pickerill Papers on Plastic Surgery in 2015.
  • Lance Richdale Papers in 2016.
  • Salmond Anderson Architects Records in 2017.
  • Herries Beattie Papers (1848–1972) in 2018.
  • Dr Muriel Bell Papers in 2019.
  • Colin and Anne McCahon Papers in 2020.
  • Janet Frame literary and personal papers in 2024.

References

  • , Hocken Collections' online catalogue