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As the oldest Museum in Aotearoa, Nelson Provincial Museum is kaitiaki (caregiver) of an extensive range of taonga (treasures) that record our region’s natural and social history.
Updated regularly, our online collection provides instant access to a variety of collection records including; Taonga Māori, Manuscripts & Archives, Publications, Fine Art, Social history and a vast Photographic Collection dating from the 1860s including the UNESCO inscribed Tyree Studio Collection.
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