National Art Gallery and Museum (N.Z.)
Established in 1865 as the Colonial Museum. First director James Hector. First building was on Museum Street. behind Parliament, in Thorndon, Wellington. After New Zealand became a dominion in 1907, the museum became known as the Dominion Museum.
The new building in Buckle Street was formally opened on 1 August 1936 by Governor-General Viscount Galway. The original plans for the Buckle Street building were never completed and by the 1980s storage had reached capacity in 1994 construction began on a new building on Wellington's waterfront.
While the Dominion Museum (later called the National Museum from 1973) and National Art Gallery had shared the Buckle Street building since 1936, the two remained separate entities until the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Act 1992 incorporated the two.
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa), which incorporated the art gallery and museum, moved out of Buckle Street in 1996. Their new waterfront home opened on 14 February 1998.
Since 2001, the Buckle Street building has been the premises of Massey University (Wellington Campus).
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Date:
n d
From:
McNab, Robert, 1864-1917 : Papers
Ref:
MS-Papers-0047-73
Description:
Rough lists of contents of National history collection for boxes 1, 2 and 3 of McNab's collection of papers compiled prior to transfer of collection to ATL. ...
Date:
[ca 1932]
From:
Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Ref:
1/2-088047-G
Description:
Photograph taken ca 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer
Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer....
Date:
1961
From:
Falla, Robert Alexander (Sir), 1901-1979 : Papers
Ref:
MS-Papers-2366-289
Date:
[ca 1936]
From:
Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Ref:
PAColl-6301-27
Description:
Display cabinets containing Maori artifacts in the Dominion Museum, Wellington, circa 1936. Photographer unidentified.
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic...
Date:
1946-1968
From:
Cunningham, John Melville, fl 1946-1953 : Papers
Ref:
2001-190-2/04
Description:
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
Date:
29/2/56
From:
The Dominion :Negatives
Ref:
1/2-145691-F
Description:
Box Misc S12
Date:
1974
From:
Westra, Ans, 1936-: Photographs
Ref:
AW-0912
Description:
Visitors attending an exhibition of modern art at the Academy of Fine Arts, in the Dominion Museum building, Wellington. Unless otherwise stated, all persons...
Date:
1974
From:
Westra, Ans, 1936-: Photographs
Ref:
AW-0911
Description:
All scenes were taken in front of the Dominion Museum building in Buckle Street, Wellington. Frames 1 to 3, and 7 to 12 show a young man with his little daug...
Date:
1961
From:
Westra, Ans, 1936-: Photographs
Ref:
AWM-0899-F
Description:
Images show a Maori carved figure on display at the Dominion Museum in Wellington, and scenes of a house interior taken at night on the Turangawaewae Marae, ...
Date:
March 1970
From:
Westra, Ans, 1936-: Photographs
Ref:
AW-0001
Description:
Queen Elizabeth visiting the Dominion Museum in Wellington. Photographs taken in 1970 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified.
I...
Date:
March 1970
From:
Westra, Ans, 1936-: Photographs
Ref:
AW-0003
Description:
Queen Elizabeth, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Anne, visiting the Dominion Museum in Wellington. Photographs taken in 1970 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwi...
Date:
1973
From:
Westra, Ans, 1936-: Photographs
Ref:
AW-0785
Description:
Shows visitors looking at exhibits in the main hall of the Dominion Museum, Buckle Street, Wellington, in 1973. Includes images of the meeting house 'Te Hau ...
Date:
1935
From:
Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Ref:
PAColl-6301-41
Description:
Maori Hall, Dominion Museum, Wellington, circa 4 September, 1935. Photographer unidentified.
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Descr...
Date:
[ca 1932]
From:
Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Ref:
1/2-088045-G
Description:
Photograph taken ca 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer
Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer....
Date:
1969
By:
New Zealand. National Publicity Studios; R E Owen (Firm); Holyoake, Keith Jacka (Sir), 1904-1983
Ref:
E-279-q-046
Description:
Christmas card sent out by the Prime Minister's Office, Wellington, 1969-1970 showing the tableau based on Cook's own description of when he first set foot o...
Date:
1848-1955
From:
Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Ref:
Micro-MS-Coll-20-2887
Description:
Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Date:
Date unknown
From:
Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 14
Ref:
PAColl-6585-46
Description:
Korotangi (carved stone pigeon) at the National Museum in Wellington, artist and date unknown. Photographer, and date of photograph, also unknown.
Quantity...
Date:
1869 - 1875
From:
Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.
By:
Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895
Ref:
C-103-029
Description:
A circular drive and fence in the foreground with a glasshouse to the right, and beyond that, the roof and high windows of the Museum, seen through young tre...
Date:
1959
From:
Falla, Robert Alexander (Sir), 1901-1979 : Papers
Ref:
MS-Papers-2366-288
Date:
1939-1947
From:
Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers
Ref:
MS-Papers-6919-0593
Description:
Contains a magazine entitled `New Zealand centennial news' (Internal Affairs, 30 November 1939), a report regarding the Maori Mission (1942), National Art Ga...
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