Explore Object Stories

    
Body Mask
Uniform of Col. Haultain
 Pacific Canoe
     
 Mask and Doll
 Cocked Hat in Tin Box
 Brandy Bottle
     
 Jerry Jaxon
 Moose on the Loose
 Curator Cabinets
     
 Ice Baby Orang-utan
 Ugly Dolls
 Bald Kiwi
     
 Pearl Shell Fishing Lure
 Tarantula
 Military Medals
     
 Barracks Assemblage
 Roosevelt's Birds
 Dance Masks
     
 Molluccas Painted Shield
 Tuffery Fish
 Goodbye Kitty
     
 One Tree Hill Radiata Pine
 Kiwi With Albino Foot
 To Have and To Hold
     
 50 Feet of Genealogy
 Dance Cards
 Herbarium Specimen
     
 Lease Document
 Vegetable Sheep
 Are You for Real?
     
 Fashion Accessories
 Norrie Wardrobe
 Cautionary Tales
     
 Colenso's Weta
 Victoria Hotel
 Yates Seed Display
   German Machine Gun  Chimney Pots
 Bradbury Glass Plates
 Enemies Together
 Pipe Dreams
 Austral Islands Staff  Dresden Jug  Collection of Taxidermied Animals
 A Tall Story
 Handle with Care!
 Unlikely Companions
 Taxidermy  Women's Garments  Cow Skeleton
 Waterbuck  in Watercloset
 Back in Black
 Big Boned
 Whale Skeleton  North American Black Bear  Inaguration Gown
 Sands of Time
 The Bear Neccessities
 Dress For Success
 Art of Packing  Spin Doctor  Swimming Caps
 The Art of Packing
 The Spin Doctor
 In The Swim
 Assortment of Bags  Busts  Toys
 Carried Away
 Immortality or Bust
 Put Your Toys Away!
 Fish Models  Maori Cloak  Woven items
 Fish of the Day
 Maori Cloak
 I Mum
 Gobstoppers  Damaged Casts  Conservation
 Gobstoppers
 Greek Tragedy
 Intensive Care
 Art of Glass  Historical Glass Preservation Jars  Thermohygrograph
 Art of Glass
 Preserves Anyone?
 Thermohygrograph
 Roman Amphora  Basalt Stone Tools  Neolithic and Bronze Age Assemblage
 Fill' Er Up
 Deserted Island
 Leaky Homes
 Watch Tools  Label Fashion  Replica Huia Feathers
 Making Time
 Label Fashion
 Talking Turkey
 Moa Bone Fish Hooks  Objects from Tyburn Gaol  Various Birds
 101 Ways to use a Moa
 Last Words
 Collector's Editions
 Gold Frog from Panama  Magazine, plants from Royal Gardens of Kew  Collection of paintings by artist John Gould
 The Frog Prints
 On Kew
 Birdland
 D'urville's Island Voyages  Chemolithographs  An Elementary Atlas of Comparative Osteology
 D'urville's Islands
 Industrial Chic
 Skeletons in the Closet
 Map of Campbells Beach Development  Globe  English Legal Document, 1746
 Castles in the Sand
 Great Southern Lands
 Law of the Land
 A Home To Share  Dr Weevil  Taxonomic classification
 A Home to Share
 Dr Weevil
 What's in a name?
 Printing Press  Piano  Masks, Shields and Clubs
 Word Up
 Silent Piano
 Masks, Shields and Clubs
 Marionettes    
 Strings Attached
   

Audio tour  Audio Tour

Join Dr Tom Trnski, Research Manager and John Early, Curator of Entomology and get closer to the stories, tales and historical information for this unique collection of objects.

Download Audio Tour here

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