ABSTRACT
The New Zealand exhibits at the Crystal Palace can be found in the official report on Miscellaneous Manufactures and Small Wares. At the 1851 Exhibition, the British colonies were exhibited as a group at the centre of the British exhibits in the western half of the Crystal Palace. At about the same time as the opening of the Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851, the colony of New Zealand was represented nearby in S. C. Brees's Colonial Panorama at the Linwood Gallery, Leicester Square. At the Crystal Palace in 1851 and at the exhibitions that followed, New Zealand, the Australasian colonies, and the Pacific generally, were incorporated in conception if not fully in reality into the existing structures and order of imperialism. In 1911 New Zealand was again exhibited at the Crystal Palace, this time in Sydenham for the Festival of Empire Exhibition celebrating the coronation of George Virtue.
