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The Auckland War Memorial Museum (Māori: Tāmaki Paenga Hira), also known as Auckland Museum, is one of New Zealand's most important museums and war memorials.Its neoclassical building constructed in the 1920s and 1950s, stands on Observatory Hill, [10] the remains of a dormant volcano, in the Auckland Domain, near Auckland CBD.
Auckland War Memorial Museum's Online Cenotaph is a biographical database and living memorial to people who served for Aotearoa New Zealand in conflict. This project will utilise the extensive and ever-growing database to create, strengthen and diversify information about Aotearoa New Zealand's war history.
The bronze frieze around the Havelock North memorial. The stone frieze on the Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland. Elements on the Wellington cenotaph including the two panels of a call-to-arms relief and the equestrian figure on top, the 'Will to Peace'. After the Second World War Gross added the bronze lions to the cenotaph.
The War Memorial Museum in the Auckland Domain is the site of the largest annual ANZAC service in Auckland. [38] White crosses erected on the field in front of the War Memorial Museum, commemorate the people that died in the New Zealand Wars and the New Zealand military personnel that died from wars fought overseas (beginning with the South ...
The Auckland War Memorial Museum in New Zealand with the Cenotaph in front A war memorial erected in 1998 in Lahti, Finland The Interallied Memorial of Cointe, Liège, Belgium A war memorial is a building, monument, statue, or other edifice to celebrate a war or victory, or (predominating in modern times) to commemorate those who died or were ...
Auckland Domain: This park, set aside by Governor William Hobson in the 1840s as a public domain, is one of the city's greatest assets. The Auckland War Memorial Museum and Cenotaph are perhaps its most dominant features. The Elliot Memorial Entrance Gates: These gates form the entrance to the Auckland Domain and are a fine example of the Art ...
Auckland War Memorial Museum (1 C, 14 P) Pages in category "World War II memorials in New Zealand" ... Dunedin Cenotaph; E. Engineer Corps Memorial Centre; K.
Formed as the Auckland Philosophical Society on 6 November 1867, for "the promotion of art, science, and literature by means of a museum and library, lectures, and meetings of the members", with a view to incorporation with the newly created New Zealand Institute and adopting the Auckland Museum, [7] [8] [9] the Society was fittingly renamed the Auckland Institute in March 1868 and formally ...