100 Natural History Treasures of Te Papa: 100 Amazing Objects from the Te Papa Natural History Collection

An insider's guide to the natural treasures of New Zealand's national museum. Since the Colonial Museum opened in 1865 and the first director, Sir James Hector, began collecting items of geological and natural history significance, the collections of New Zealand’s national museum have become enormously significant—not to mention enormous. The objects housed by the Museum range from fossilized bones of the extinct Haast’s Eagle and specimens collected by Joseph Banks on Cook’s first voyage t...