NEWTOWN MUSEUM
Collection Going- to New Building The exhibits which constituted the Newtown Museum have nearly all been transferred to the new building at Mt. Cook, where they will be incorporated in the collection of the Dominion Museum. The Newtown Museum has been closed for some months and the exhibits have been shifted gradually. Soon the last will be moved. The Newtown Museum was a municipal institution housed on the upper floor of the Newtown Library. It was opened in 1905, the nucleus being a collection of birds, animals and curios presented by Mr. E. W. Petherick to the city. Large collections were purchased and added, and in 1911 the City Council acquired Mr. Yuill’s private collection of about a thousand birds and other exhibits, which were added, so that the museum when it closed had thousands of specimens of birds, animals, shells and other exhibits. In it was the stuffed skin of King Dick, the lion which for many years was a favourite among the animals of the Newtown Zoo. The decision to have the collection housed in the ML Cook building was made by the City’ Council some years ago, when Mr. G. A. Troup was Mayor.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 199, 20 May 1936, Page 10
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199NEWTOWN MUSEUM Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 199, 20 May 1936, Page 10
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