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Dominion Museum; creating agency; 1907-1973
National Museum of New Zealand; creating agency; 1973-1989
Overview
This series consist of newspaper clippings covering a range of subjects including activities and publicity relating to other museums, areas of Museum interest and research and the building of the Museum facility at Buckle Street, Te Aro, Wellington.
Some of the later clippings have not been as well arranged and therefore are only identified in general terms:
Files in this series are:
• Regional and Provincial Museums, Colonial History, Art Gallery, Whales and Museum Christmas Cards; 1955
• New Zealand weather; 03.1939 - 07.1939
• Otago Museum; 1949 – 1954
• Wanganui Museum; 1952 – 1953
• Moa and extinct birds; 1953
• General; 1923 – 1975
• Otago Early Settlers Museum; 1953 – 1954
• Birds; 1938 – 1940
• Geology; 1929 – 1956
• Erosion file; 1938 – 1944
• Auckland Museum; 1950 – 1957
• Maori ethnology and anthropology (anthropological); 1938 – 1953
• General Natural History (and Zoology); circa 1926 – 1953
• New Zealand weather (notes and clippings); 1937 – 1938
• Canterbury Museum; 1952 – 1957
• Timaru Museum; 1952 – 1954
• Southland Museum; 1953 – 1956
• Various clippings; 1974 – 1976
• Museum and collection related (material); circa 1950
• General loose clippings (mainly Natural history); circa 1920 – 1960
• Regional and Provincial Museums, Colonial History, Art Gallery, Whales and Museum Christmas Cards; 1955
• Antarctica and polar exploration; 1955 – 1956
• Oriental file (General); 1937
• General loose clippings (mainly Natural history); circa 1920 – 1969
• Acquisitions, displays, reports etc; 1948 – 1954
• Early New Zealand and private collections; 1940 – 1953
• Scientific expeditions, vintage cars and ornithology; circa 1950
• General museum related; circa 1868 – 1925
• Photography; 1937 – 1940
• Firearms, swords etc; 1938 – 1960
• General Zoology; circa 1950
• Numismatics; circa 1952 – 1953
• Carter Observatory; 1939
• Royal Society; 1940 – 1943
• Building of Dominion Museum reopening; 1933 – 1948
• New Zealand in Review; 1939 – 1940
• New Zealand weather; 04.1939 - 03.1940
• Proposed Wairarapa Museum; 1953 – 1954
• New Zealand Museums in general (and smaller Provincial Museums); 1948 – 1954
• General (including some ephemera such as speech notes); 1935 – 1957
• Archaeological file; 1950 – 1953
• General Museum related; circa 1868 – 1925
• Art, art galleries, antiques and AGMANZ; circa 1950 – 1959
• Botany (mostly New Zealand); 1937 – 1940
• Mammals; 28 Aug 1926 - 28 Sep 1988; Dominion Museum
• Phar Lap; 1932 - 1989; Dominion Museum
• Other Museums (South Island); 1950s