National Library of New Zealand

The National Library of New Zealand is charged with the obligation to "enrich the cultural and economic life of New Zealand and its interchanges with other nations".
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  • Opening hours:
    Monday—Friday: 9:00 AM—5:00 PM
    Saturday: 9:00 AM—1:00 PM
    public holidays: closed
  • Type: Library
  • Description: national library
  • Also known as: “National Library”, “natlib”, “New Zealand National Library”, “Te Puna”, and “Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa”
  • Address: 70 Molesworth Street, Thorndon, Wellington, 6011

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision and Court of Appeal of New Zealand.

Government office
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Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision is an integrated audiovisual archive formed from amalgamation of the collections and operations of the RNZ Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero and the Television New Zealand Archive with the New Zealand Film Archive.

Courthouse
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The is the principal intermediate appellate court of . It is also the final appellate court for a number of matters.

Church
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The , also called St Paul's Cathedral or Wellington Cathedral, is an Anglican cathedral church located on Hill Street, at its junction with Molesworth Street, in , in the city of , New Zealand.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Thorndon and Pipitea.

Suburb
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is a historic inner suburb of , the capital city of New Zealand. Because the suburb is relatively level compared to the hilly terrain elsewhere in Wellington it contained Wellington's elite residential area until it changed in the 1960s…

Suburb
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is a central suburb of , in the of New Zealand's .

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

National Library of New Zealand

Latitude
-41.27662° or 41° 16′ 36″ south
Longitude
174.77842° or 174° 46′ 42″ east
Inception
1965
Levels
5
Open location code
4VCPPQFH+99
Open­Street­Map ID
way 25636435
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­library
Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
Q390375
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“National Library of New Zealand” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المكتبة الوطنية في نيوزيلندا”
  • Arabic: “مكتبة نيوزيلندا الوطنية”
  • Belarusian: “Нацыянальная бібліятэка Новай Зэляндыі”
  • Catalan: “Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Zelanda”
  • Chinese: “新西兰国家图书馆”
  • Czech: “Národní knihovna Nového Zélandu”
  • Czech: “National Library of New Zealand”
  • Czech: “Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa”
  • Dutch: “Nationale Bibliotheek van Nieuw-Zeeland”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المكتبه الوطنيه فى نيوزيلندا”
  • Esperanto: “Nacia Biblioteko de Nov-Zelando”
  • Finnish: “Uuden-Seelannin kansalliskirjasto”
  • French: “Bibliothèque nationale de Nouvelle-Zélande”
  • French: “National Library of New Zealand”
  • German: “Alexander Turnbull Library”
  • German: “National Library of New Zealand”
  • German: “Nationalbibliothek Neuseelands”
  • German: “Neuseeländische Nationalbibliothek”
  • German: “Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa”
  • Greek: “Εθνική Βιβλιοθήκη της Νέας Ζηλανδίας”
  • Italian: “National Library of New Zealand”
  • Japanese: “ニュージーランド国立図書館”
  • Macedonian: “Национална библиотека на Нов Зеланд”
  • Maori: “Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa”
  • Maori: “Te Puna”
  • Persian: “کتابخانه ملی نیوزیلند”
  • Polish: “Biblioteka Narodowa Nowej Zelandii”
  • Russian: “Национальная библиотека Новой Зеландии”
  • Russian: “Новозеландская национальная библиотека”
  • Serbian: “Национална библиотека Новог Зеланда”
  • Slovenian: “Nacionalna knjižnica Nove Zelandije”
  • Slovenian: “National Library of New Zealand”
  • Slovenian: “novozelandska nacionalna knjižnica”
  • Slovenian: “Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca nacional de Nueva Zelanda”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca Nacional de Nueva Zelanda”
  • Ukrainian: “Національна бібліотека Нової Зеландії”
  • Welsh: “Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Seland Newydd”

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Highlights include Alexander Turnbull Library and Tiakiwai Conference Centre.

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