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Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa
Cable Street, Wellington.
New Zealand's celebrated and sometimes controversial national museum and art gallery. A Wellington "must visit". Fascinating for kids.
Check out the way it was built to cope with earthquakes.You can actually see part of the
underground structure.To make way for this museum a hotel was moved on a rail track!!!
The building is pretty awesome to look at and inside there are lots of things to view and some interactive stuff too. Kids love the earthquake house.You can go inside and really feel what it is like to be in an earthquake.
The museum has a very good outdoor area with fantastic views of the harbour and the city. This is a place for all the family.The shop is excellent for things NZ and there is a family friendly café too.
The building failed to find favour with many of the architectural community but the public love it and in time architectural critics might see its merits too.
The design was by JASMAX (Ivan Mercep, Peter Bossley and Pip Cheshire).Completion was in 1998.
TRANSPORT: Bus route 24 runs from Wellington Railway Station to Miramar and around Oriental Bay
or
Catch any bus to Courtenay Place and take a short walk to the waterfront.
Gray Young, Morton and Young designed Wellington’s “Grand Central” in an imposing style that blended the Classical and Georgian Revivals, with a grand portico. It was built between 1934 and 1937 as the Capital city’s station and to accommodate New Zealand Railways’ head office. It has fine interior spaces.
On the station forecourt there is a statue of a frail looking figure - Ghandi.
This is the place to catch suburban or regional trains. The Interislander ferry operates a shuttle service from its dock to across the road from the main entrance to the station. Local buses have a terminus (the Lambton Interchange) through a pedestrian tunnel to the west.
