Since opening on 27 November 1999, the Museum of Wellington City & Sea’s mission has been to preserve, present and promote Wellington’s social, cultural and maritime heritage.

Every second year the Museum embarks on the Family Treasures Project, a community project involving Year 7 and 8 students, their families, their schools and the Museum.

In 1907 when Robert Baden-Powell first published his book “Scouting for Boys” he created a youth movement that has become part of the world’s social history.

The Chocolate Thru The Ages Museum was opened in 2004 and charts chocolate’s rich history from pre-Aztec times to the present day.

Firth Tower Museum is located in picturesque grounds on Tower Road, Matamata. The name Matamata means ‘headland’. It was the name given by the famous Ngati Haua chief Te Waharoa to his new pa in 1830.

Once upon a time the members of the Owaka community decided to create a museum to preserve their history.

The Charlotte Museum is currently displaying an exhibition of early lesbian theatre.

he first known commercial tobacco planting in the Motueka area was on Horatio Everett’s property in Brooklyn from 1888 to 1890. Tobacco would become a major crop in the Motueka district involving almost every able bodied person, including children, in the area either in growing or harvesting the golden weed.

The Jonesonian Institute (Huia, West Auckland) is concerned with the museum and its archive as carrier of memory for our society, especially what we choose to remember, and why we make that choice.

Rua Pick: Te Whare o Anupihi: 5 Dec 2008 – 1 March 2009. This selection of artworks is a tribute to the Waitaha nga hoanga tuhituhi (rock drawings and paintings) that adorn the limestone caves and shelters throughout the South Island of New Zealand.