Find below a directory of amenities across Auckland. The links are to venues which reflect the vitality of cultural, arts and educational experiences on offer throughout the wider Auckland region.
Auckland Art Gallery is a cultural leader in New Zealand. Its purpose is to be a place for art and a catalyst for ideas. With multiple exhibition spaces spreading across three levels in an award-winning building, it is the largest and most inspiring visual arts experience in the country.
The gallery’s collection and loan collections currently number over 16,000 artworks. Together, they include major holding of New Zealand historic, modern and contemporary art. Alongside outstanding works by Māori and Pacific artists, they represent significant international painting, sculpture and print collections.
Expand your cultural horizons through the remarkable collection, temporary exhibitions, visitor event, outreach activities and education programmes.
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Cnr Kitchener and Wellesley Streets
Auckland CBD
Contact
Ph: 09 379 1349
hello@aucklandartgallery.com
www.aucklandartgallery.com
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Hours
Open daily 10am — 5pm (except Christmas day)
Auckland Museum is regarded as one of the finest museums in the Southern Hemisphere. Renowned for its unique collection of Māori and Pacific treasures, Auckland Museum is also a war memorial for the Auckland province and holds one of New Zealand’s top three heritage libraries.
Housed in an iconic heritage building, the Museum tells the story of New Zealand as a nation. It has pre-eminent Māori and Pacific collections, significant natural history resources and major social and military history collections, as well as decorative arts and pictorial collections.
Auckland War Memorial Museum
The Auckland Domain
Parnell
Contact
Ph: 09 309 0443
info@aucklandmuseum.com
www.aucklandmuseum.com
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Open daily 10am — 5pm (except Christmas day)
Spread across 40 acres and two sites, MOTAT is the country’s largest transport and technology museum of its kind and offers a fun and exciting learning experience for visitors of all ages. Their core vision is to use New Zealand’s heritage, kiwi ingenuity, transport, technology and associated stories in a creative and interactive way to educate and inspire the innovators of tomorrow.
With ever changing exhibitions, school holiday experiences, unique MOTAT events and hands-on activities, MOTAT is a great place for a family day out. The magic MOTAT experience is a rich learning environment and it tells stories about New Zealand aviation, energy, communications, rail, road transport, tramways and defence, from the 1800s to today.
MOTAT
Great North Road and Meola Road
Western Springs
Contact
Ph: 09 815 5800
www.motat.org.nz
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Hours
Open daily (except Christmas Day) 10am–5pm
New Zealand Maritime Museum Hui Te Ananui A Tangaroa is home to the world’s greatest maritime pioneers. Filled with stories that have defined the identity of New Zealanders, it’s a place of dreams, daring feats, amazing journeys, burning ambition, passion, human endeavour, imagination, exploration, and courage.
From the first discovery by Kupe, to one of the most courageous migrations by the Polynesian peoples, to Abel Tasman and then Cook, the spirit of exploration has been forged and the boundaries of possibility broken. The New Zealand Maritime Museum honours those people who sailed to the limits of their imagination.
New Zealand Maritime Museum
Cnr Quay and Hobson Streets
Viaduct Harbour
Contact
Ph: 09 373 0800
www.maritimemuseum.co.nz
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Hours
Open daily 10am–5pm