Absolutely Agnes
Celebrate the life and legacy of Dame Agnes Trail in this permanent exhibition honouring one of Dunedin's most beloved community figures.
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When
Ongoing
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Where
Tūhura Otago Museum
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Price
Free
Absolutely Agnes is our contribution to Dunedin’s city-wide activation marking the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Hallenstein Brothers business, and more particularly a recognition of more than a century of philanthropy from the extended Hallenstein family.
Agnes Fawcett Barden (née Hallenstein) was born in Queenstown, Central Otago, in 1868. She was the fourth and youngest daughter of Bendix and Mary Hallenstein. Agnes graduated from Otago University in 1893 then moved overseas. The following year, she married Siegfried Barden, from Hamburg. Siegfried died in 1917 and after WWI, Agnes shifted her home to London. She never returned to Aotearoa.
After Agnes’s death in 1953, Esmond de Beer was instrumental in ensuring a part of the Bardens’ personal collection of primarily Greek antiquities and Japanese decorative arts entered the Tūhura Otago Museum collection.
