Wellington Museum

Wellington Museum is a museum on Queens Wharf in Wellington, New Zealand. It occupies the 1892 Bond Store, a historic building on Jervois Quay on the waterfront of Wellington Harbour.

Photo: Musuems Wellington, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Opening hours: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
Type: Museum
Description: museum in Wellington, New Zealand
Also known as: “Museum of City & Sea” and “Museum of Wellington City & Sea”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include TSB Arena and Museum of New Zealand.

TSB Arena

Convention center

Photo: KHanger, CC BY 3.0.

The TSB Arena is an indoor arena in Wellington that hosts basketball games, roller derby, music concerts, conventions and exhibitions.

The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is New Zealand's national museum and is located in Wellington. Usually known as Te Papa, it opened in 1998 after the merging of the National Museum of New Zealand and the National Art Gallery. Museum of New Zealand is situated 640 metres southeast of Wellington Museum.

New Zealand Portrait Gallery

Museum

Photo: Lance, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata is an art gallery in the Waterfront Shed 11 building in Wellington, New Zealand. New Zealand Portrait Gallery is situated 190 metres north of Wellington Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lambton and Wellington Central.

Lambton

Neighborhood

Photo: FRED, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Lambton is a neighborhood.

Wellington Central

Suburb

Photo: Frozen-Coke-Rocks, Public domain.

Wellington Central is an inner-city suburb of Wellington, and the financial heart of both the city and the Wellington Region. It comprises the northern part of the central business district, with the majority of Wellington's high-rise buildings.

Te Aro

Suburb

Photo: Frozen-Coke-Rocks, Public domain.

Te Aro is an inner-city suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. It comprises the southern part of the central business district including the majority of the city's entertainment district and covers the mostly flat area of city between The Terrace to the west, and Cambridge Terrace at the base of Mount Victoria.

Wellington Museum

Categories: maritime museum, regional museum, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Wellington, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-41.28531° or 41° 17′ 7″ south

Longitude

174.77813° or 174° 46′ 41″ east

Levels

Wheelchair access

yes

Operator

Museums Wellington

Open location code

4VCPPQ7H+V7

OpenStreetMap ID

way 250856271

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

Wikidata ID

Q9292226

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From German to Spanish—“Wellington Museum” goes by many names.

German: “Museum of Wellington City & Sea”
German: “Wellington Museum”
Japanese: “ウェリントン街と海の博物館”
Polish: “Museum of Wellington City & Sea”
Portuguese: “Museu de Wellington”
Portuguese: “Museum of Wellington City & Sea”
Romanian: “Wellington Museum”
Russian: “Веллингтонский музей”
Spanish: “Museo de Wellington”

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