The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa ("the place of treasures of this land") is the major national museum and art gallery in Wellington. The museum was established in 1992 on the Wellington’s waterfront. Its main building has six floors of permanent and temporary exhibitions, cafés, and gift shops.
The History Collection has antique native textiles and dresses, some dated to the sixteenth century. It also includes the collection of 20,000 stamps and related objects. The Pacific Collection has over 13,000 exhibits from the Pacific Islands. There are several collections of fossils and archaeo-zoology,, a collection of about 70,000 specimens of New Zealand native birds, a herbarium with more than 250,000 dried plants and a specimen of world’s largest squid, weighing over 1000 pounds.
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa , 55 Cable St, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand, Phone: +64-43-81-70-00