Otago Museum

public museum in Dunedin, New Zealand

Organization Museum Q7108347

Facts

18 properties

Identity

Instance of: museum, historic building^[5]
Official website: otagomuseum.nz^[11]
Official name: Otago Museum, Tūhura Otago Museum^[16]

Status and dates

Inception: 1865^[9]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1865 GND (DNB) 1868 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗

Location

Country: New Zealand^[4]
Location: Great King Street^[8]
Coordinate location: 🗺️ -45.866°, 170.511°^[10]
Located in the administrative territorial entity: Dunedin City^[3]
Street address: 419 Great King Street, Princes Street^[19]^[20]

People

Founder: James Hector^[7]
Director / manager: Ian Paul Griffin^[12]

Relations

Member of: Zoo and Aquarium Association^[2]

More facts +6

Architect: David Ross (architect)^[6]
Collection or exhibition size: +1500000, +3674^[14]^[15]
Date of official opening: September 12, 1868^[17]
Heritage designation: Heritage New Zealand Category 1 historic place listing^[13]
Name: Tūhura^[18]
Social media followers: +3181^[21]

🏷️ Also known as

en Otago Museum de Tūhura Otago Museum fr musée Otago hu Otago Múzeum ja オタゴ博物館 ko 오타고 박물관 zh 奥塔哥博物馆 zh 奧塔哥博物館

🔖 Identifiers · 27

ISNI: 0000000122168099
VIAF cluster ID: 127815803
Library of Congress Authorities ID: n50080941, no2024044893
GND ID: 517155-6
Image (Wikimedia Commons): OtagoMuseum2.jpg ↗
Alexander Turnbull Library ID: 96467
Arachne entity ID: 1212173
ArchINFORM project ID: 7063
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026): 1OQbFe
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021): 556301
Facebook username: otagomuseum
Freebase ID: /m/0gg6f6

Show all 27 identifiers +15

IDAI.gazetteer ID: 2114464
Instagram username: otagomuseum
J9U entity ID: 987007380994205171
KISTI ID: K000344593
Kōtuia ID: 3363
New Zealand Heritage List number: 2203
OpenStreetMap way ID: 159929111
Quora topic ID: Otago-Museum
Te Papa agent ID: 3579, 10120
Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae ID: LJ73RLGAQFH45K5RS3R6SBZXIM
Tripadvisor ID: 256968
Union List of Artist Names ID: 500307288
Wolfram Language entity code: Entity["Museum", "OtisArtGallery::xrm74"]
X (Twitter) username: otagomuseum
Yale LUX ID: group/bf83bda8-6c1b-4b22-80ae-3fc5f3c29d0d

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🔗 Connections

Employees / affiliates 2

Ian Paul Griffin, William Benham

Country 1

New Zealand

Director / manager 1

Ian Paul Griffin

Founder 1

James Hector

Has these parts 1

Māori Stone Research

Instance of 1

museum

← Has works in the collection 1

Frederick Wollaston Hutton

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Summary

Otago Museum is a museum^[1].

⭐ Popularity Graph

12/100 established

🌐 Wiki Languages

9 / 428 langs

📈 Wikipedia Views · last 12 months

508 views trend: hourly, last 32h

🌐 Available in 3 languages

enTūhura Otago Museum huOtago Museum ko오타고 박물관

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[4] ↑ Otago Museum — country (P17): New Zealand. archINFORM. Retrieved 2018-07-31. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Otago Museum — instance of (P31): historic building. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Otago Museum — architect (P84): David Ross (architect). wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Otago Museum — founder (P112): James Hector. Gifts and Legacies at the Otago Museum. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Otago Museum — located in the administrative territorial entity (P131): Dunedin City. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Otago Museum — location (P276): Great King Street. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ Otago Museum — member of (P463): Zoo and Aquarium Association. otagomuseum.nz. Retrieved 2020-02-20. otagomuseum.nz. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Otago Museum — inception (P571): 1865. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Otago Museum — coordinate location (P625): {'lat': -45.8657, 'lon': 170.511}. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Otago Museum — official website (P856): http://otagomuseum.nz/. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Otago Museum — director / manager (P1037): Ian Paul Griffin. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Otago Museum — heritage designation (P1435): Heritage New Zealand Category 1 historic place listing. heritage.org.nz. heritage.org.nz. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Otago Museum — collection or exhibition size (P1436): {'amount': '+1500000'}. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Otago Museum — collection or exhibition size (P1436): {'amount': '+3674'}. Gifts and Legacies at the Otago Museum. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Otago Museum — official name (P1448): {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'Tūhura Otago Museum'}. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Otago Museum — date of official opening (P1619): September 12, 1868. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Otago Museum — name (P2561): {'lang': 'mi', 'text': 'Tūhura'}. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Otago Museum — street address (P6375): {'lang': 'en', 'text': '419 Great King Street'}. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ Otago Museum — street address (P6375): {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Princes Street'}. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ Otago Museum — social media followers (P8687): {'amount': '+3181'}. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Otago Museum is an instance of museum (Q33506) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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