Auckland Museum Collections

See incredible Auckland Museum collection items in every new tab.
What is Auckland Museum Collections?
Auckland Museum Collections is a Chrome extension that sets the background of new tabs with fascinating images from Auckland Museum's vast collections. Explore ordinary, surprising, and wondrous objects and learn more about them.

Extension stats

Users: 151 ▼ -1
Rating: 5.00 (5)
Version: 1.9.5.0 (Last updated: 2023-12-19)
Creation date: 2020-05-25
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Overrides new tab: Yes
Size: 453.63K

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Extension summary

Sets the background of new tabs to an image from the collections of Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira.

Each new Chrome tab will reveal ordinary, surprising and wondrous objects from Auckland Museum's vast and encyclopaedic collections.

If an object sparks your curiosity, click on the link to find out more. You can also share the object on Twitter or Facebook, and download the image to use as a desktop background. Images are drawn from our Flickr account at https://flickr.com/photos/aucklandmuseum_collections

User reviews

by Charlotte Milne, 2023-11-16
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Auckland Museum Collections requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Auckland Museum Collections has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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