Museum · Parnell
Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira
Museum Circuit, Auckland 1010
Neoclassical museum on the Auckland Domain with collections of Māori and Pacific taonga, natural history and war memorials. Adds temporary exhibitions, evening openings, talks and live performances in its halls.
Permanent exhibitions
- He Taonga Māori: carvings, a meeting house and the war canoe Te Toki a Tapiri
- Pacific Masterpieces
- Natural history: Origins, Land and Oceans galleries
- Volcanoes gallery
- Scars on the Heart: New Zealanders at war
- Hall of Memories and the World War I and II halls
- Weird and Wonderful discovery centre