MQ Museum Quarterly Issue 109 Summer December 2006 - February 2007

Cover: Grand Atrium

Page 1: Director’s Message – Message from Rodney Wilson about completion of the Stage II Grand Atrium refurbishment.

Page 2: Contents page.

Page 3: News in brief – Auckland Museum commemorates old friend, Turn downtime into uptime; Image – Sir Hugh Kawharu ONZ.

Page 4: Cooke the books – The Auckland Museum library receives funding from several bequests for the purchase of books, manuscripts, serials, and equipment.

Page 5-22: Welcome Home – Article on the completion of the refurbishment of the Museum; Image – Auckland War Memorial Museum construction 1927-1929; Image – Auckland War Memorial Museum Grand Atrium construction 2006; Image – Grand Foyer Auckland Museum, Images – Auckland War Memorial Museum construction 1927; Image - Auckland War Memorial opens to the public 28 November 1927; Images – Construction of 1960s Southern Addition; Image – Proposed design for the colonnade which was to have linked the Museum to Broadway Newmarket; Image – Stage One upgrade of the Maori Court; Images – Southern Courtyard and carpark construction; Image – Example of Stratigraph layering of volcanic tuff; Image – View of the southern leg of mega frame; Image – Exposed tuff in the Southern Courtyard; Image – Western elevation of dome construction; Image – Mega frame exposed; Images – Installing tensioned and laminated glazing systems; Images – The Dome nears completion; Images – The sustainable timber suspended bowl and associated atrium and public facilities take shape.

Page 23-26: War Memorial; Merry Christmas from the front – Selection of Christmas cards and correspondence includes extracts from Lieut. William M Smallfield and Private Frank Whitaker (WW1), Captain Kenneth S Turtill (WW2), and Graeme Doull Kiwi Peacekeeper East Timor 1999; Image – New Tear Dinner Jan 1st 1941 North Africa; Image – Princess Mary Gift Box gift from Onehunga RSA; Images – Frank S Whitaker’s Silk postcards; Image – Kiwi Peacekeepers Christmas Card from East Timor 1999.

Page 27-30: Packing Heat – Interview with Registrar Laura Vodanovich on the new basement storage facilities; Images – packing and moving of Museum objects.

Page 31-36: Special Exhibition; Vaka Moana – Exhibition on the exploring and peopling of the vast Pacific Ocean; Companion book – Vaka Moana Voyages of the Ancestors; Images – Unlabelled images from the exhibition.

Page 37-40: Kan – the green gallery collection of international studio ceramics; Image – Yoshiro Kimura Five Lobe Vase Japan 1998; Image – Hideo Kobayashi – Bright Shadow Series #22 Japan 2003; Hakuko Ono – Vase Japan 1971.

Page 41-44: Ex libris; Charting the pacific the European way – Library has a broad collection of important maps, books, pictures, and ephemera from the European perspective of New Zealand and the Pacific; Image – Plate No XII Chart of the Friendly Islands [Tonga] from ‘A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken by the command of His Majesty for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere…’ 1784; Image – The Southern Hemisphere with particular attention to Australia by Guillaume de L’Isle, de L’Academie Rle. des Sciences 1740; Image - The Southern Hemisphere with particular attention to Australia by Guillaume de L’Isle, de L’Academie Rle. des Sciences 1775; Maris Pacifici (quod vulgo Mar del Zur) cum regionibus circumiacentibus, insulisque in eodem passum sparsis novissima description / Abraham Ortelius 1589.

Page 45-47: Pictorial Gallery; Wide eyed in Tonga – An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Noelle Sandwith celebrating Tonga culture in the 1950s; Images – Tonga 1963, Queen Salote at Govt House Adelaide with koala.

Page 48: Museum Circle celebrates future – Party photos from the launch of the book With a View to the Future.

Page 49: Bravo Bravia – To celebrate the opening of Auckland Museum’s Dome Sony are giving away a 32 ince S Series Bravia LCD television.

Page 50: Museum Membership – Auckland Museum membership application form.

Page 51: Noel Lane – Limited edition Grand Atrium Lithograph.

Page 52: Thank you Auckland – List of donors whose support has enriched the Auckland Museum.

Page 53: Hidden Treasures – The Winning Design. Prize winning entry for the 1929 Building Grierson Aimer and Draffin [Fold out].