Auckland War Memorial Museum

The Auckland War Memorial Museum Tmaki Paenga Hira (or simply the Auckland Museum) is one of the most significant museums and war monuments in New Zealand. Its holdings are focused on New Zealand history (particularly the history of the Auckland Region), natural history, and military history. The current museum was built in the 1920s in the neo-classicist style and rests on a grassed plinth (the remnants of a dormant volcano) in the Auckland Domain, a huge public park near the Auckland CBD.

The holdings of the Auckland Museum are divided into three categories: documentation heritage (manuscripts, letters, and other historical records in archives, as well as visual art); important disciplines of natural science; and human history (broadly, material culture). Since its founding, the Museum has maintained a high level of regional collaboration and complementing collection with other organizations around Auckland (including Auckland Libraries and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tmaki). Manuscripts, ephemera, maps, charts, and plans, newspapers and periodicals, rare and contemporary books and pamphlets, photographs, and works of art in the form of paintings, bookplates, sketches, and drawings comprise the Museum's nationally and internationally significant Documentary Heritage collections.

Location: Domain Drive, Auckland, North Island 1010

Website: aucklandmuseum.com