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Otago Museum | |
Location: | North end of Dunedin |
Nearest Place: | Dunedin |
Established: | 1868 |
Visitors: | 350,000 per annum |
Governing Body: | Museum Board - with members appointed by Dunedin City Council, other Councils in the region, University of Otago and others. |
Great King Street, Dunedin. Museum Web Site
Anthropological and natural history museum.
<googlemap lat="-45.864463" lon="170.51013" zoom="16">-45.865464, 170.510581, Otago Museum</googlemap>
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.