Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa | What to See in Wellington, New Zealand
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Te Papa Tongarewa, or “containers of treasures” in Maori, is New Zealand's interactive, innovative, and fascinating national museum. In its six floors, the museum explores the country’s unique, spectacularly beautiful natural environment as well as Maori ancient culture, art, and fascinating history. It is the museum of the land and its people. Among the most memorable exhibits is the giant squid and the actually shaking Earthquake House. The History Collection features textiles and dresses from the 16th century, the New Zealand Post Archive has about 20,000 stamps, and the Pacific Collection contains over 13,000 historic and modern objects from the Pacific Islands. The museum has collections of fossils, a herbarium of more than 250,000 dried plants, a collection of almost 70,000 New Zealand birds and a number of reptiles, amphibians, and mammals.

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 55 Cable St, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand, Phone: +64-43-81-70-00

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