I enjoyed taking my adult class on a fieldtrip to the Maritime Museum. The Pacific navigation space was neat and if you are right into the Americas cup then there is much to see regarding Sir Peter Blake and being the winners of this year's...More

In New Zealand this museum is famous for his heritage items and images of old new Zealand. Please visit the best place.

Maritime museum gives u an added knowledge of the history of Newzealand marine time...It has an impressive display of water transport system such as wooden boats n canoes.. Good place to take picture as well

I have visited the NZ Maritime Museum before but decided to see it again as I remembered it being pretty interesting. The museum is easy to find as it's located on the waterfront at Viaduct Harbour in Quay Street. It's opened every day between 10am...More

The Maritime Museum is all about New Zealand and the sea. That's how people got here and went other places before the 747 was invented. When getting someplace on the sea involved oars and sails, it was even slower and riskier. The MM is part...More

The permanent exhibits include lots of canoes and other historic wooden boats and can seem a bit static and tired. But the exhibit on immigrants to New Zealand, why they came and from where and when, which shows life in steerage and traces the lives...More

Had a wonderful tour of the Maritime Museum (and now I can't remember our tour guide's name)...We even went back after lunch to finish it out...The room that was made to look like the steerage section of the ship (including swaying back and forth like...More

The museum is very nice, All personnel very nice and helpful. All items with well explanatory display. Excellent display of items.

Excellent range of craft and models. great history of Polynesian sailors and more recent Europeans. Museum shop has quality merchandise thoughtfully chosen and worth taking home. Loved the full scale model of the hold Europeans came out in 100 years ago - so small.

A wonderful collection of Pacific Island and Moari boats. A nice collection of sailboats of various sizes and a very interesting section about New Zealand's particiapation in America's Cup. I thouroughtly enjoyed this museum.