the War Memorial for the Auckland Provincial region. The collection addresses four major themes: the experiences of war, the impact of war, remembering war, and the materiality of war. It includes a significant medal collection, a wide range of swords and firearms as well as material culture related to New Zealanders' military service. The Social History collection was established in 1992, by the amalgamation of the War collections and the Colonial History collection (established 1965), together with the Numismatic, Maritime History and Philately collections. The collection has two main strands: New Zealand at War, and Auckland/New Zealand social history. As their historical context and documentation is improved, the collections' significance as a research and reference resource has also increased. While the geographical collection focus is Auckland, this does not exclude collections which relate to a wider geographical area, that explore connections between Auckland and its hinterland, and New Zealand and the wider world. Research The Museum publishes two scholarly serials as part of its statutory role to advance and promote cultural and scientific scholarship and research—the regular Records of Auckland Museum, which has been published since 1930 and contains results of original research on the Museum collections and research by curatorial and other staff, and associates, and the occasional Bulletin, which appears less often and usually contains results of larger research projects. The Records contain more than 450 articles written by over 150 different authors and co-authors dealing mostly with zoology, archaeology, ethnology, and botany. The articles contain important accounts of archaeological excavations and ethnographic objects, and descriptions of nearly 700 new taxa (mostly new animal species and subspecies). War Memorial The Museum has an extensive permanent exhibition, "Scars on the Heart", covering wars—including the New Zealand Wars and New Zealand's participation in overseas conflicts such as the First and Second World Wars; the Anglo-Boer War; conflicts such as the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and the country's role in UN Peacekeeping missions. This exhibition is linked to the War Memorial, and shows, for example, models of Māori pā (fortified settlements) and original Spitfire and Mitsubishi Zero aeroplanes. In November 2016, Pou Maumahara, a memorial enquiry centre, was established, and in 2017, the Museum opened Pou Kanohi: New Zealand at War, a new permanent exhibition designed "to tell young people about the country's experiences of WWI". Parts of the museum, as well as the Cenotaph and its surrounding consecrated grounds (Court