Otago Museum

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MUSEUM
Otago Museum
Location: North end of Dunedin
Nearest Place: Dunedin
Established: 1852
Visitors: 700,000 per annum
Governing Body: Museum Council, shared appointments between Auckland Council and the Auckland Museum Insitute.

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.