Feb 15, 2022 | Collection, Museum General, Other
On Wednesday 2nd February 2022, a large truck from International Art Services spirited away two of the Abbey Museum’s collection of icons. This was the start of a journey for “Saint Michael as Guardian of the Host” and “Forty Martyrs of Sebaste” to Auckland Art...
Nov 15, 2021 | Collection
The Collection Management Team was abuzz with excitement on Saturday with the arrival of a new artefact; a silver-gilt rectangular plate from a Medieval book cover. The plate dates from around the 13th to 15th century and depicts a saint possibly St Peter seated...
Nov 23, 2020 | Collection
One of the exciting things about working at the Abbey Museum is being there when a new object is donated. Recently, the Abbey was given a fabulous example of a silver 30-tari coin from Malta. This coin was issued in 1798 during the brief reign of Ferdinand von...
Jul 22, 2020 | Collection
Salt can have devastating effects on ancient artefacts. It also can be a tricky process to deal with these salts to protect an artefact over time. Such is the case with one particular process taken on an artefact in the Abbey Museum Collection, the circular plaque of...
Jun 26, 2019 | Collection
Among the Abbey Museum’s more recent acquisitions is a collection of forty-four objects from Turkey, Tunisia and Papua New Guinea including an amazing intact Roman glass flask. It is incredible to have such a fragile object in our collection, considering it was...
