A beacon of culture and delight, the excellent Dowse is worth visiting for its jaunty architecture alone. It鈥檚 a family-friendly, accessible art museum showcasing NZ art, craft and design, with a good cafe to boot. The only permanent showcase is a carved M膩ori pataka (traditional raised storehouse). It's a 20-minute drive, 30-minute ride on bus 83 or 91, or a short train trip from central Wellington.
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For an imaginative, interactive experience of Wellington鈥檚 social and maritime history, head to this bewitching little museum, inside an 1892 bond store鈥
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This groundbreaking ecosanctuary is nooked into a valley in the hills about 2km west of downtown Wellington. Living wild within the fenced, predator-free鈥
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These hilly, 25-hectare botanic gardens can be effortlessly visited via the Wellington Cable Car (nice bit of planning, eh?), although there are several鈥
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The city's most impressive viewpoint is atop 196m-high Mt Victoria (Matairangi), east of the city centre. You can take bus 20 most of the way up, but the鈥
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New Zealand's national museum is hard to miss, taking up a sizeable chunk of the Wellington waterfront. 鈥楾e Papa Tongarewa鈥 loosely translates as 鈥
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Academy Award鈥搘inning special-effects and props company Weta Workshop has been responsible for bringing the likes of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit,鈥
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New Zealand might be a young country but it has one of the oldest continuously functioning parliaments in the world and has chalked up more than its share鈥
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Housed in the monumental old library in Civic Sq (the new library is next door), Wellington鈥檚 much-loved City Gallery does a cracking job of securing鈥
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Built for the centenary of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1940, this gorgeous little art-deco building on the shell-strewn Petone foreshore contains a fun and鈥
2. Katherine Mansfield House & Garden
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Often compared to Chekhov and Maupassant, Katherine Mansfield was one of NZ鈥檚 most distinguished authors, who pushed the short-story form to uncharted鈥
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Academy Award鈥搘inning special-effects and props company Weta Workshop has been responsible for bringing the likes of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit,鈥
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Designed by Rev Fred Thatcher, the first vicar of Wellington, this wonderfully woody former Anglican cathedral (1866) is well worth a look. Despite its鈥
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Ng膩 Taonga is a vortex of NZ moving images into which you could get sucked for days. Its library holds tens of thousands of titles: feature films,鈥
6. National Library of New Zealand
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As well as being a wonderful resource for researchers, the National Library has various exhibition spaces including the Turnbull Gallery, displaying rare鈥
7. Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
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At 88m long and 18m high, this modern Anglican cathedral exudes quasi-Moorish architectural vibes inside its lofty interiors. It first opened its doors in鈥
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New Zealand might be a young country but it has one of the oldest continuously functioning parliaments in the world and has chalked up more than its share鈥