Visit the Wellington Museum through a self-guided audio tour or with a city tour that includes the museum in its itinerary. Inside, step back into back-in-the-day Wellington through replicas of old buildings, such as the Bond Store warehouse and Jack’s Boathouse. Read and experience the region’s histories as told by British settlers and by the Maori, who first made this land their home.
Witness the TEVWahine tragedy, considered to be New Zealand’s worst maritime disaster, in a documentary made by renowned New Zealand filmmaker Gaylene Preston. And in the Attic, a steampunk space full of strange tales and curious artifacts, kids and the young at heart can get transported with the Nga Hau “time machine”—a video installation that brings you face-to-face with settlers from decades past.