User:Islandbaygardener/Staff of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa & previous incarnations

Colonial Museum (1865 - 1907)

The work of the survey and museum, which Hector saw as a single unit, soon fell into a pattern. Hector worked strenuously in the field during the summer with such of his staff as could be spared, together with temporary assistants. For the rest of the year they were all involved writing up reports, classifying specimens and arranging them in the museum.http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:O5z2Rf5ZX-QJ:www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/alt_essayBody.asp%3FessayID%3D1H15+W.+Skey+Dominion+Museum&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nz
 * James Hector - Director 1865-1903
 * Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
 * William Skey - Chemist (Staff from 1865-1892)Hired by Hector to work on the Geological survey of New Zealand to analyse rocks and minerals but also assisted with the set up of the museum. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:O5z2Rf5ZX-QJ:www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/alt_essayBody.asp%3FessayID%3D1H15+W.+Skey+Dominion+Museum&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nz. Transferred to the Mines Department in 1892. http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=2S29
 * Arthur T. Bothamley - assistant
 * R. B. Gore - Curator, meterologist (Staff from 1865-1901) Originally Hectors Clerk for the Geological survey of New Zealand http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:O5z2Rf5ZX-QJ:www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/alt_essayBody.asp%3FessayID%3D1H15+W.+Skey+Dominion+Museum&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nz Retired in 1901.
 * Thomas William Kirk - Zoologist
 * Alexander McKay - Assistant geologist, later geologist
 * S. H. Cox - geologist
 * Mr John Buchanan (Staff from 1865-1885)Hired as draftsman for Geological survey butand Hector encouaged him into Botany due to his artistic skill. Retired 1885.
 * Mr Burton - taxidermist

Dominion Museum (1907-1972) In charge of Maori Pa at 1906 exhibition http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Exhibitions/1906/Exhibits/TeAraiteuruPa/
 * Augustus Hamilton - Director 1903-1913


 * James Ingram McDonald, artist, sculptor, and photographer
 * Amy Castle, was a photographers assistant, reassigned to the entomological collection which she assumed full responsibility for after the death of Augustus Hamilton
 * Elsdon Best, Ethnologist from 1910 to his death in 1931.
 * W. A. McKay, museum custodian and son of Alexander McKay, previously the geologist at the Museum
 * William John Phillipps, Registrar and Ethnologist

Joined by National Art Gallery (1936-1992)

National Museum (1972-1992)
 * Nancy Adams
 * Robert Alexander Falla

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (1998- )
 * Seddon Bennington