Auckland Museum

The Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira is one of New Zealand's most important museums and war memorials. Its collections concentrate on New Zealand history, natural history, and military history. 

One of New Zealand's first museums, Auckland Museum begun its life in a two-room farm cottage in the central Auckland suburb of Grafton in 1852. With one room for the collections and one room for the curator, the Museum soon outgrew this site, relocating to what was the Provincial Council Building in 1867, before moving once again to the old Post Office building in Princes Street three years later. The Museum's first custom-built premises, to which it moved in 1876, were just along the road on Princes Street.