Colonial Museum

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Title

Colonial Museum

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This is an exterior view of the Colonial Museum, built in 1865, on Museum Street. Extensions were later added as its staff and exhibits grew. On the street front, with high arched windows, are the museum's offices. To the right is the cottage of the Museum Director, Sir James Hector, where he lived with his family until 1882. The museum's exhibition hall is tucked in between the offices and the cottage. The photographer, James Bragge, took many photographs of Wellington and its environs

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Image

Date created

circa 1880

Creator

James Bragge

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/127463

Related subjects

Fences / Streets / Gardens / Hedges (Plants) / Trees / Walkways / Sidewalks / Houses / Galleries & museums / Wellington (New Zealand) / Colonial Museum / collodion / silver / photographic plates / sheet glass / wet collodion negatives / documentary photographs / black-and-white negatives / wet collodion process / black and white photography / Wellington

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