Last Loneliest Loveliest: New Zealand & The Empire
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When:
| Sat 30 May ’09, 10:00am |
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| Sun 13 Sep ’09, 10:00am |
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Where: Hawke's Bay Museum and Art Gallery, 9 Hershell St, Napier Show map
Restrictions: All Ages
Ticket Information:
- Adults/Seniors: $10.00
- Children 5-15: $5.00
- FAmily Pass: $20.00
- Booking fees may apply
Website:
When, in 1891, the poet Rudyard Kipling referred to New Zealand as ‘last, loneliest, loveliest,’ he was locating this distant colony within the sprawling expanse of the British Empire. New Zealand & the Empire draws on the collections of the Hawke’s Bay Cultural Trust and some of the finest private collections in the country, to revisit the British Empire -an organisation that was, at its peak, the largest formal empire that the world had ever known.
Covering the approximate period 1876 – 1947, this exhibition uses a range of items to examine just what the term British Empire meant to those generations of New Zealanders who lived and served under its mantle. It investigates the way in which objects employing a distinctive Empire style were used as strategic and highly effective reminders of ‘Britishness’.
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