| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
 |
Rugby is New Zealand's most popular sport.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
 |
Hong Kong lacquered wood table.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
 |
Dragon robe (China).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : National Museum
|
 |
Cushion case from China.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Model of a 16th century Portuguese caravel, one of the first European ships to visit the Pacific, in the Maritime Museum.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Bow figurehead of a Maori fishing canoe (19th century).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Early 19th century carved boat prow.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Stone anchor for a large canoe.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
A tata, a Maori device for bailing water out of a boat.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Model of a Maori war canoe.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
A tavuaka is an outrigger from Vanuatu.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Drua from Fiji.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Fishing canoe from the Solomon Islands.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Outrigger from Samoa.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Large inter-island fishing vessel.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Multiple sails (Pacific fishing vessel).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Paddles.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Green turtle shells used for fishing (Fiji).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Rattle for shark fishing.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Sailing canoe from Kiribati.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Model of a globe from London showing the constellations in the sky.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Model of the Heemskerck, the vessel that brough the first European settlers to New Zealand.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Model of the Endeavour, the ship used by James Cook to explore the Southern Hemisphere and make astronomical observations.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Diesel engine used to power small ships (until 1992).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Coastal trading cutter (c1880).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Dredger for keeping ports open.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Maori traders at Auckland's waterfront (1852).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Binnacle housing a ship's compass.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Mariners' astrolabe (16th century).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Nautical quadrant (15th century).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Octant (invented by Thomas Hadley, 1731) which avoided issues of a moving ship.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Detail of the Octant.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Sextant from London, 1723.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Determining South using the Southern Cross.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Clock for determining longitude.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Flag signals.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Compass for determining direction.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Morse code sender.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
An exhibition about European immigrants to New Zealand: Baggage.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Poster encouraging immigration.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Newspaper advert offering free passage to New Zealand for workers.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Book for colonists.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Model of sleeping arrangements on an emigrant ship.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Fast passage to New Zealand.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Tools for catching whales.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Whale processing area.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Carving on sperm whale teeth.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Whale bone art is called scrimshaw.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Maori fishing tackle.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Exhibit showing European life in 1950s New Zealand.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Relaxing in 1950s New Zealand.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Shop in 1950s New Zealand.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Adverts in 1950s New Zealand.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Jet boat from 1953.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
1950's kitchen.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Figurehead for a boat (1889).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Figurehead for a boat (1879).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Figurehead for a boat (1872).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Lifebelt.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Anchor from the HMS Bounty (iron, 1784-1789).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Telegraph for sending signals to the engine room.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
"Three Kings and a Golden Bay" (ink on paper, 1992) by John Bevan Ford.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
"The Wreck of HMS Orpheus on Manakao Bar" (1868) by Richard Beechey.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Detail of "The Wreck of HMS Orpheus on Manakao Bar" (Richard Beechey).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Embroidery showing life in the South island in the 1890s ("We Three Go South" by Mary Trubahovich).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Detail of "We Three Go South" by Mary Trubahovich.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Special exhibition called "Faces of the Pandemic" (2021).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
"Faces of the Pandemic" (2021).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Concert poster for Gracie Fields (1945).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Model of a coastal house (1996).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Ship in a bottle.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Model of the Biblical flood.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Model of the Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace boat bombed by the French Navy in 1985 killing a crew member.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Woolen embroidery of an 1885 naval ship.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Maritime Museum
|
 |
Card drawn by museum staff member when he lived in the Falkland Islands.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
The zoo in Auckland sets up many environments.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
The zoo has an African section including giraffe.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
Zebra.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
Ostrich.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
Boab tree.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
Lovebird.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
Nyala.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
Lion.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
Greater flamingo.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
Serval.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
Baboons.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
Rhinoceros.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
Tiger in the Asian section.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
Otters arrived with Europeans.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
Brogla live in Australia and have an elaborate courting ritual.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
Emu, a flightless bird from Australia.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
Musk loriket.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
Barraband parakeet (Australia).
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
Cockatiel.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
The New Zealand section.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
One of the averies.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
The rough gecko. New Zealand geckos are slow breeders and long lived.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
The Takahe. This flightless bird lacks a strategy to defend itself or its young.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
Otago skink. They eat insects and can also eat other lizards. They almost became extinct when mammals arrived in New Zealand.
|
2023 |
| New Zealand |
City / Town : Auckland
Site / Event : Zoo
|
 |
The grand skink is the second largest in New Zealand and lives in cooler climates.
|
2023 |
were added from 1 February 2025.