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Opening of Auckland War Memorial Museum, 1929

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Opening of Auckland War Memorial Museum, 1929

Crowds gather for the opening of the Auckland War Memorial Museum in the Auckland Domain, on 28 November 1929. Auckland Museum was one of the two major museum building projects of the interwar period. The other was Wellington's Dominion Museum, built next to the National War Memorial and carillon. Both projects linked the role of a temple of culture to that of a site of remembrance.

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Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira

Reference: Album 458(2) n31

Permission of the Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Conal McCarthy, Museums – Ethnology, research and building projects, 1900 to 1945, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/43876/opening-of-auckland-war-memorial-museum-1929 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Conal McCarthy, i tāngia i te 18 December 2013.