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Auckland Museum

Gaimster, David R. M., author, Browen, Hannah, editor, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Overview

Auckland Museum, founded in 1852, just 12 years after New Zealand became a British colony, was the nation's first public museum. From the outset the Museum was encyclopedic in its collecting of 'specimens illustrative of the Natural History of New Zealand - also, Weapons, Clothing, Implements of New Zealand, and the Islands of the Pacific'. Starting in a farm cottage, the Museum is now one of the most important in Oceania. Dominating the central Auckland landscape, its monumental Greek Revival building is one of the visual icons of the city. The building is also a memorial to the war dead of the Auckland province, hence the Museum's full title, Auckland War Memorial Museum. Auckland Museum houses the world's leading collection of Maori taonga (treasures) and, reflecting Auckland's place as the world's largest Polynesian city, multiple traditional and contemporary arts from throughout the Pacific region. The Museum's director, David Gaimster, explores this extraordinary collection, each item with its own compelling backstory.

• Publisher: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers ; Auckland War Memorial Museum
• Subject: Auckland War Memorial Museum Catalogs. / Art New Zealand Auckland.
• ISBN: 9781785512193, 1785512196, 1785511734, 9781785511738

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
AM101.A93 G35 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE