Musée du mémorial de guerre d'Auckland Nouvelle Eélande (41)

            Le musée du mémorial de guerre de Auckland (Auckland War Memorial Museum) est l'un des musées les plus importants de Nouvelle-Zélande. Ses collections se concentrent essentiellement sur l'histoire de la Nouvelle-Zélande, et plus particulièrement sur celle de la région d'Auckland, tant sur son histoire naturelle que militaire.

Inauguré le 28 novembre 1929, le musée est maintenant situé dans l'un des bâtiments les plus remarquables de la ville de Auckland, construit en 1960 dans un style néoclassique, sur un tertre d'origine volcanique, dans le parc Auckland Domain.

Le cénotaphe est érigé devant le musée à la mémoire des Néo-Zélandais morts lors de la Première Guerre mondiale. Il prend modèle sur le Cénotaphe de Londres. Ce monument rend également hommage aux soldats néo-zélandais morts au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et des autres conflits du xxe siècle.

The Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira (or simply the Auckland Museum) is one of New Zealand's most important museums and war memorials. Its collections concentrate on New Zealand history (and especially the history of the Auckland Region), natural history, and military history.

The museum is also one of the most iconic Auckland buildings, constructed in the neo-classicist style, and sitting on a grassed plinth (the remains of a dormant volcano) in the Auckland Domain, a large public park close to the Auckland CBD.

Auckland Museum's collections and exhibits began in 1852. In 1867 Aucklanders formed a learned society – the Auckland Philosophical Society, later the Auckland Institute. Within a few years the society merged with the museum and Auckland Institute and Museum was the organisation's name until 1996. Auckland War Memorial Museum was the name of the new building opened in 1929, but since 1996 was more commonly used for the institution as well. From 1991 to 2003 the museum's Maori name was Te Papa Whakahiku

The museum houses a large collection of Māori and Pacific Island artefacts, including Hotunui[16] (an entire large carved meeting house built in 1878 at Thames), and Te Toki a Tapiri (a Māori war canoe from 1830 carved by Te Waaka Perohuka). The museum stores a photographic collection of 1.2 million images, and stores and exhibits 1.5 million natural history specimens from the fields of botany, entomology, geology, land vertebrates and marine biology. The stated goal is to eventually possess specimens from all New Zealand species.

There is also an extensive permanent exhibition covering wars, including wars within New Zealand and New Zealand's participation in overseas conflicts. This exhibition is linked to the War Memorial (see below), and shows, for example, models of Maori pā (fortified settlements) and original Spitfire and Mitsubishi Zero aeroplanes. The Museum holds the largest collection of applied and decorative arts in New Zealand and selections are currently displayed in the Landmarks and Encounters Galleries.

The museum offers changing special exhibitions. In 2006 these included Da Vinci and Vikings exhibitions. The initial exhibition after the grand re-opening in early December 2006 was Vaka Moana, a show about the first Polynesian explorers reaching New Zealand. Afterward, the exhibition started travelling the world for several years. In early 2009 the museum is host to a cast of the most complete (over 90%) Tyrannosaurus rex fossil ever found, nicknamed "Sue"

Taken on: February 4, 2019

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