As part of our birthday year celebrations, we have assembled images from several periods in the life of Auckland Museum, from its days in a small building on Princes Street to the new building up on the hill. The first photographs were taken after the installation of the new plaster casts of antique sculpture, which arrived in 1882. The photographs by J.D. Richardson were taken shortly before the collections were moved to the new building in the Domain, in 1928, and the last group were taken for Grierson, Aimer and Draffin, architects of the new building.