Dominion Museum building

The Dominion Museum building on Mount Cook in Buckle Street Wellington completed in 1936 and superseded by Te Papa in 1998 was part of a war memorial complex including a Carillon[note 1] and National War Memorial.

[1] The building, registered by Heritage New Zealand as a Category 1 Historic Place,[2] currently houses part of the Massey University Wellington Campus.

[6] In 1930, the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum Act 1930[7] established a board of trustees to oversee development of the new building.

The building housed the Dominion Museum, the National Art Gallery of New Zealand and the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts (who had sold their land and donated the proceeds to the new organisation on the provision that they would be accommodated).

[8] The museum is built of reinforced concrete and partly faced with Putaruru stone.

Colonial Museum 1865–1907, Dominion Museum 1908–1936. Museum Street, Thorndon now Pipitea. Prefabricated in Dunedin in 1865
The museum on Mount Cook
A view of the Dominion Museum building from the Carillon