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Auckland Museum
Auckland Museum
Auckland Museum
Auckland Museum
Auckland Museum
Auckland Museum
Auckland Museum
Auckland Museum

Auckland Museum

Director's Choice

By (author) David Gaimster

$19.95

  • 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 natural history and documentary heritage holdings are among the most extensive in the southern hemisphere
  • New photography showcases the key items in the collection in exquisite detail
  • Part of the successful Director's Choice series
Full Description

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 encyclopaedic 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.

About the Author

Dr David Gaimster joined the Auckland Museum as Director in 2017, having previously directed The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, and the Society of Antiquaries of London and worked in senior roles at the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport and at the British Museum. He has published extensively on archaeology, museology and cultural property.

Specifications
Publisher
Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd
ISBN
9781785511738
Published
4th Mar 2019
Binding
Paperback / softback
Territory
USA & Canada
Size
6.5 in x 7.48 in
Pages
80 Pages
Illustrations
40 color
Name of series
Director's Choice
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