Museums - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1994 - 1998

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

By: Synaxon Hill Group Architects

Reference: Plans-2007-030-1088/1091

Description: Includes basement plan, lower and upper level plans, typical pile to pile brace, and detail of storage shelves. Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on draughting paper, sizes varying

Date: 1989

By: Petone Settlers Museum

Reference: Eph-E-MUSEUM-1989-01

Description: Shows a combined illustration incorporating a photograph of a row of wooden houses, and an architectural plan of workmen's homes. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph 890 x 620 mm. Provenance: Donated by Te Manawa Museums Trust in 2004.

Date: June 1995

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-o-1719

Description: Includes - Sharon Dell, Jonathan Dennis, and Cheryl Browne. Sharon Dell's induction as director of Whanganui Museum. Americas Cup parade, Wellington. Teri's 75th birthday party. Group of women and children at a gathering. Lawrence and Patricia Dennis with two women and a man in a rural setting. Landscape views on the way to Pirinoa Station, Wairarapa. Friends, families, children, a cat, and a communal meal. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1977 - 1995 - 1998

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

By: Synaxon Hill Group Architects; Wellington City Corporation. Architectural Division

Reference: Plans-2007-030-1051/1067

Description: Includes block plans, garden designs, floor plans, elevations and sections, for the Interpretation Centre, and Heritage Centre. Includes diazo prints of plans from 1977 signed by Kuek of the Wellington City Corporation Architectural Division, and later site plans, and block plans, garden layouts, fence and door details; details of exhibition area layouts. Quantity: 17 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, ink and pencil drawings, and photocopies, sizes varying

Date: 2 November 1996

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1996/3124-F

Description: The meeting house, Te Hau Ki Turanga, being moved from the old National Museum building to the new Museum of New Zealand building on the Wellington waterfront. Accompanying the the meeting house are a tuatua (band of warriors) and iwi members of the Rongowhakaata people. Photographed by the Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid on the 2nd of November 1996. The house was built in 1843 by Raharuhi Rukupo and 18 carvers for the Ngati Kaipoho of the Rongowhaata at Turanga. In 1867 it was purchased for the Government and brought to Wellington. Quantity: 3 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strips comprising 9 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler film negatives, 35mm

Date: 1995 - 1996

By: Dowse Art Museum; Brooke-White, Julia Stace, 1942-

Reference: Eph-E-MUSEUM-Wellington-1995-01

Description: Shows a blue photograph of a body seen through bubbling underwater in a foetal position. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph 835 x 600 mm.

Date: 1953-1962

By: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.). Gallery Committee

Reference: MS-Papers-0186

Description: Records concern the Committee's administration of the Gallery and include annual reports, minutes of meetings, financial statements. There is correspondence with many leading contemporary artists relating to exhibitions of their work; catalogues and invitations. Quantity: 21 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Salvaged 1958, from McGrath and Blenner Lasset, barristers and solicitors, where the first secretary of the Centre had worked.

Date: [Between 1927 and 1955]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-206

Description: Photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1927 and 1955, mostly in the Wellington Region. Some are art photographs, including still life images of carvings, cloisonne ware and porcelain, and some are tinted. One sequence shows the Dominion Museum and Art Gallery, both interior and exterior views. Some were taken in April 1936 before the building was furnished; others were taken later in 1936 and 1937, including the Kauri Hall, the Sculpture Hall, the Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Academy Gallery, the Maori Hall, and the entrance vestibule. Civic events are shown in illuminations at the Government Buildings for the King George V Silver Jubilee on 12th May 1935; the Carillon tower floodlit for for the coronation of King George VI; and night photographs of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in 1940, including the Australian and British pavilions. Wellington is shown in views from various hills and rooftops. Specific trips and occasions include a Waikaremoana trip in 1930; the Victoria University College Natural History Society trip to Butterfly Creek in 1933; a Camera Club outing near Mangaroa Hill in 1938; and celebrating Xmas in Auckland in 1952. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super-Cobra binder file; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1869 - 1875

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: 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 trees, including a Norfolk pine and pinus radiata. The tower of Government House, with flag flying, the roof of Dr Hector's house and another house centre and left, with Wellington Harbour in the background and the Eastern Hills beyond. Previously titled Church and Houses and assumed to be an English view. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 176 x 249 mm

Date: 1850 - 1891 - 1928 - 1875 - 1984

From: Various artists :Plans relating to refurbishment of Parliament and Government Building. [1913-1970s].

By: Cook, Rodney, 1930-

Reference: Plans-99-030-355/363

Description: Shows Sydney Street, Kumutoto Street (located about Bowen Street), Lawrence Street, Museum Street, and Hill Street. Possibly drawn by Rod Cook during restoration work. Quantity: 9 drawing(s) (felt tip). Physical Description: Felt tip pen on tracing paper, sizes varying about 500 x 800 mm. Provenance: Donated by Rodney Cook in 1999.

Date: [ca 1895]

By: National Art Gallery (N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-0232

Description: Two interior views of New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Whitmore Street, Wellington and an exterior view of the second Government Life Building Customhouse Quay. Both buildings by F de J Clere. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s) (mounted). Physical Description: Dry mounted on cardboard

Date: 1929-1948

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7666-1

Description: Photographs of the stands and other buildings at Tauherenikau Race Course taken by Photo News Wellington on the 24th of February 1948. Portions of the facade of Briscoe's Building which was located in Victoria and Harris streets, Wellington, photographed about 1930. Designs and plans for the Dominion Museum, National Art Gallery, and Carillon, Wellington, for the 1929 competition for these buildings. Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1126: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd: Records. See also Drawings and Prints collection Plans-2002-058: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd : [Architectural plans.1906-1995]. Note: Photographs at PAColl-7666-1 are associated with Plans-2002-058-08 (for Tauherenikau Race Course buildings). Plans-2002-058-Folder 033 (for Briscoe's Building). Plans-2002-058-Folder-080 (for Dominion Museum and National Art Gallery)..

Date: 1998

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-448-083/102

Description: Political cartoons. President Clinton goes on television to clear his name of sex scandal allegations. Lockwood Smith pledges drought relief to the farmers of Marlborough. Taxpayers get hit for $270 million payouts to Equiticorp statutory managers. A Texas justice representative justifies their views on capital punishment. 158 years after the birth of New Zealand, historians work out why the country still suffers from labour pains - fish hooks in Article II of the Treaty. Titewhai Harawira makes Leader of the Opposition, Helen Clark weep at Waitangi. Shows an alternate way Titewhai Harawira could have protested over Helen Clark speaking on the marae. Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark outline their positions on military action against Iraq. Comment on the proposed military bombing solution for dealing with Iraq's chemical weapons. New Zealand cricket fans get excited over the Black Caps beating the Australian Cricket team. Te Papa gets the thumps up. Jenny Shipley dons her armour and helmet to do battle. The Press Gallery at Parliament struggle to describe the Prime Minister's, Jenny Shipley's, State of the Nation speech. Comment on National's Code of Social Responsibility. Helen Clark, who has been critical of the parenting skills of other MP's is reminded of Frank Sinatra's advise to the Pope on the issue of birth control, 'He no play da game, he no make the rules...' The newly streamlined Mercury Energy is responsible for plunging Auckland into ongoing power cuts. An Iraqi child survivor of American bombing reads, a letter from the President, Bill Clinton. Members of the Board of Mercury Energy are wired to the main power grid - they will be the first to know when the energy to Auckland returns. A Mercury Energy executive defends their performance. Winston Peters unveils his preferred immigration application form. Quantity: 20 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1905

By: New Zealand. Public Works Department; Cook, Rodney, 1930-

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/[ca.1905]/Acc.37386

Description: Plan of buildings between Museum, Bowen and Sydney streets showing sites of the museum, the Public Health Department building, laboratories for the Health Department and the Mines Department, the latter being under brick construction. Handwritten notes at top right: 748-339, R. Cook, 637.109 Note under title on original: See Standard Survey Plan No. 252 and Brisco's Plan No. 51/25 Stamp at bottom left corner: P.W.D. 65186 Handwritten explanatory note at the Laboratory - Mines Department section: Dated c.1905 in the History of Chemistry Division, DSIR by Hughson & Ellis (DSIR 1981) Scale of original [1:240] Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on photocopy, scale indeterminable, 37.7 x 26 cm. on sheet 41.8 x 29.7 cm.

Date: 2002

By: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Reference: Eph-E-MUSEUM-Nat-2002-02

Description: Shows a stone carving by Lyonel Grant, entitled "Koteate". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph 840 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by Sticky Fingers Ltd in 2002.

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-090

Description: A selection of Maori weapons and ornaments at the National Museum. Identifies the tewatewa [tewhatewha] (Battle Axe), hei-tiki (greenstone ornament worn around neck) and a hand weapon of wood used by Maori Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 268 x 187 mm

Date: 2004

By: Molnar, Ymre, active 2004; Underground Arts (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-D-TATTOOING-2004-01

Description: Shows a portrait of Rawiri Tarahina Poutu Te Rangi, drawn by Ymre Molnar, in a border simulating carved greenstone. The National Tattoo Museum is at 42 Abel Smith Street Wellington; director S G Maddock. Computer graphics for the poster were done by Dean of Underground Arts. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Signed]: Ymre Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 605 x 422 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Dunbar Sloane action, Wellington, 18 November 2004, lot 578a.

Date: 14 February 1998

By: Oliver, Ruth, 1966-

Reference: PA-Group-00642

Description: Photographs of ceremonies for the opening of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Cable Street, Wellington, taken 14 February 1998 by Ruth Oliver. The images show the museum building and a waka in Lambton Harbour Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 5 b&w original negative(s) strips with 29 images. 1 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheet. Physical Description: Photographic print, 35mm negative strips Provenance: Donated by Ruth Oliver, Porirua, 2010

Date: 2002 - 2003

By: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Reference: Eph-E-MUSEUM-Nat-2002-01

Description: Shows a central golden ring framing the Te Papa building in Wellington. At top left is Frodo (Elijah Woods), and at top right, an Orc. There are logos for Te Papa, New Line Cinema, and the Wellington City Council. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph 840 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by Sticky Fingers Ltd in January 2003.

Date: [2000]

From: Attwell, Peter Russell, 1945- : Research papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7029

Description: In this report for his Master of Public History course at Victoria University of Wellington, Attwell looks at the Wellington Maritime Museum from its birth in 1972, its growth, struggles with underfunding, its demise at the end of the 1990s and its rebirth as the Museum of Wellington City and Sea at the end of 1999 Included is a personal view of the process the two museums underwent Attwell worked for the Wellington Harbour Board and later as a museum officer at the Wellington Maritime Museum Quantity: 1 folder(s) (30 pages).