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MUSEUM
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Otago Museum
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Location:
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North end of Dunedin
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Nearest Place:
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Dunedin
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Established:
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1868
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Visitors:
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350,000 per annum
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Governing Body:
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Museum Board - with members appointed by Dunedin City Council, other Councils in the region, University of Otago and others.
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Great King Street, Dunedin.
Museum Web Site
Anthropological and natural history museum.
Location
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It has internationally significant ethnographic material from New Zealand and Oceania. An Easter Island Statue is a rare exhibit. It has a wealth of archaeological material from southern New Zealand.
Archaeologists
H D Skinner is a distinguished former director. Les Lockerbie is a former staff member.