Title: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1897, Wellington

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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The Museum.

The Wellington Museum, or more correctly the “Colonial Museum,” occupies a position immediately at the rear of Government House. It has frontages to Bolton, Museum and Sydney Streets, and backs on to the cemetery. There is a good deal of free ground about it, and therefore room for great extension. The present buildings are of wood, and, as may be gathered from the accompanying picture, are fairly handsome, considering their antiquity. By many the Museum is said to rank next to that of Christchurch, though of course a long way behind it. The public, patronise it fairly, but it is seldom thronged with visitors. The distance from the wharf may be covered by an ordinary pedestrian in ten minuter; and certainly the stranger will be well repaid for the trouble of finding out the locality. The “Maori house” is particularly attractive to tourists and others who take an interest in the arts and wonders of aboriginals. Mr. Gore is the curstor, and Sir Jamess Hector takes a great interest in the institution.