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The Wellington Museum celebrates the history of Wellington. It is located on Jervois Quay on Queens Wharf in Wellington Harbor, in the heritage 1892 Bond Store designed by leading architect Frederick de Jersey Clere. The museum’s four floors of galleries and diverse exhibits cover the maritime history of Wellington, early European and Maori settlement, and the development and growth of the city and region. The museum tells stories of how the city has evolved and changed over its 150 years since it became the capital of New Zealand. A two-story high cinema screen stretches between the ground and the first two floors, showing films about Wellington. Of the three theatre areas, one tells Maori legends, the other commemorates the sinking of the Wahine ferry in Wellington harbor, and the third is a new exhibition space called The Attic.

3 Jervois Quay, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand, Phone: +64-44-72-89-04

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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