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Collections
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A number of the Wellington Museums Trust’s facilities either own or are responsible for significant collections of items, which are summarised below.
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Museum of Wellington City & Sea The museum has an extensive collection of maritime-related items, photographs and documents mainly gathered over the 20th Century when shipping and its associated technical, economic, cultural and social aspects formed a distinctive and fascinating culture of its own. The collection also charts the great changes that occurred to that way of life as technologies developed, coastal shipping declined and cargo containerisation became standard. The collection was built up over 20 years while the museum’s emphasis was mainly maritime but, with the expansion of the mission in the late 1990s to encompass the social well as the nautical history of Wellington, the collections policy shifted tack to accommodate this change. Thus the collection now contains a small but growing selection of items, photographs and documents that have significance to the history and development of Wellington. |
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This museum has a range of collections and collection treasures owned by the NZ Cricket Museum Trust. These items comprise local and national cricketing items including costumes and textiles (eg caps, blazers, ties and batting gloves); pictures (prints and reproductions); ephemera (eg programmes, postcards and cricket balls), photography (historical and contemporary prints), porcelain and ceramics (such as presentation plates and cups), metal (trophies, cups, plaques etc), papers (minute books, estate papers etc) and wood (including cricket bats, stumps and bails). The museum also has a research and lending library with an extensive range of cricket books. |
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Items on display in the cottage include a range of 19th Century (and some 18th Century) furniture and artefacts that have either been loaned or donated by the Wallis family, Te Papa and other interested people in the Wellington region, or purchased specifically for the collection. The majority of items currently on display are owned by the museum. |
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The museum is responsible for a number of early cable cars and their trailers, which are owned by the Wellington City Council. The museum also looks after a small collection of personal items from James Fulton (the cable car system’s original designer and engineer) and associated memorabilia. |
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