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Open every day 10am—6pm
(except Christmas Day)

Free entry for everyone
Charges apply to some short-term exhibitions and activities

55 Cable Street, Wellington

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  4. Science and nature
  5. Birds of New Zealand

Birds of New Zealand

  • North Island brown kiwi
  • Quiz: How well do you know your New Zealand birds? Quiz: How well do you know your New Zealand birds?
  • Birds collection
  • New Zealand Birds Online
  • Watch: Rediscovering the 'extinct' takahē in 1948
  • Buller’s Birds of New Zealand book
  • Ancient colossal penguin bones discovered in Otago
  • Kingdom of the Birds: An Expedition to Solander Island
  • Over-looked for a century: Macquarie Island shag added to the New Zealand list
  • Martinborough’s cave of bones: How thousands of flightless birds met their end
  • Jigsaw: Kākā feathers
  • Jigsaw: North Island Kākā egg
  • Jigsaw: Yellowhead
  • Jigsaw: Stewart Island Brown Kiwi
  • In photos: Giant eggs, tiny eggs, and the eggceptionally rare
  • The global hunt for the original wandering albatross
  • Expedition to Snares Island
  • Extinct tiny albatross species discovered in Taranaki
  • Filming the elusive kiwi in the 1940s Filming the elusive kiwi in the 1940s
  • Moa vs Superman: Poignant extinction lessons via a 1970s comic

Jigsaw: Kākā feathers

Open every day 10am–6pm (except Christmas Day)

Free entry for everyone.
Charges apply to some short-term exhibitions and activities.

Museum of New Zealand
Te Papa Tongarewa

55 Cable Street
PO Box 467
Wellington, 6011
New Zealand
Phone: +64 (04) 381 7000

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Te Papa is proudly supported by:

  • Wellington City Council
  • Ministry for Culture and Heritage
  • GNS Science
  • Earthquake Commission
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