CT.033480; Japan Series Tokyo Department Store 1960s-80s by Brian Brake. Gift of Raymond Wai-man Lau. Te Papa.
I’ve enjoyed searching through Te Papa’s collections to find items related to Christmas for this year’s advent calendar.
Advent calendars developed from a 19th century German Lutheran tradition of counting down the 24 days before Christmas. An advent calendar has 24 doors that you open each day from 1 December to Christmas Eve to reveal images or small gifts.
With our Collections Online calendar, we add a new collection item every day up to 24 December. Make sure you check each day to see what’s new.
Christmas cake decoration, about 1950. Gift of Annette Baier. GH4855-27. Te Papa
My favourites this year are the Christmas cake decorations, like the one above, that were donated to the museum in 1996.
I was also pleased and surprised to find some Brian Brake photographs with a Christmas theme. The one at the top of this blog is another one of my favourites. There are more Brian Brake photos on the Brake minisite.
