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Reviewed January 28, 2023

Budget two hours.
It has everything from the Polynesian settlers to European settlers. Paddling boats, sail, and steam. The actual America's Cup winning boat (inside). Scale models, maps, photos, and artifacts are everywhere.

Date of experience: January 2023
Thank Jeffrey M
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Reviewed January 28, 2023

We cancelled an excursion to the island due to the bad weather on the day in question and visited here instead. The displays were very well thought out and informative. I especially liked the section about the Brits who travelled over under the cheap passage scheme as a cousin of mine did that when I was a child. There is a large section on the America's Cup which was very interesting. We spent several hours here, visiting the cafe at one point and also the shop. There were a couple of points where we had to dodge school parties but otherwise it wasn't crowded. We thought the entrance fee was very reasonable.

Date of experience: November 2022
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Reviewed January 13, 2023 via mobile

Visited this wonderful museum near the cruise dock. Great info on the native people, emigration to New Zealand, early exploration as well as all kinds of sailing info and a great display about the America's Cup. You can leave to grab a bite to eat then come back to finish discovering. Spent most of the day here

Date of experience: January 2023
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Reviewed January 11, 2023 via mobile

Location ----- city water front not far from the Britomart city centre
Surprisingly not expensive to enter 🤯.
Extensive coverage of all maritime History with some video footage.
Another school day really, lots of obvious facts I wasn't aware of Maori navigation, French explorer's etc
Well worth a trip 👍.

Date of experience: January 2023
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Reviewed November 29, 2022

The NZ Maritime Museum is conveniently situated near the ferry terminal in Auckland. We were able to leave our suitcases in lockers, till it was time to leave for the airport later in the afternoon.
An excellent museum, filling in some missing pieces for us of the jigsaw of NZ life and history that we hadn’t got from other museums. NZ’s history over the last 750 years owes so much to the sea and those brave enough to travel great distances. it starts with the first settlers, Māori, and their various forms of waka. Also on display are canoes and twin-hulled vessels from other Pacific island travellers. Then you come on to the story of the discovery, charting and settling of the island by Europeans, telling first of Tasman and his failed expedition (but he gave us the name New Zealand), the French explorer, Jean Francois Marie de Surville, whose crew all fell ill and died; and then the successful story of James Cook, who turns out to be a great guy, looking after his crew and appreciating Māori culture and values. You see life in the port of Auckland in the 19th century. You learn the story of European immigration especially from the UK, from the 1840s onwards. You can experience something of life in steerage in a deck that moves and creaks realistically, then compare with a 1950s 3rd class cabin from a later wave of immigration. Cook benefitted from the invention by John Harrison of H4, a chronometer that successfully solved the “Longitude Problem”. This story is told in an interesting section on navigation. If yachting is your thing, there’s a whole big gallery devoted to it, including NZ’s 1995 Americas Cup winner. There are smaller displays about whaling, baches and more. A most enjoyable and worthwhile visit. PS; don’t miss the “Americas Cup” created from beach plastic.

Date of experience: November 2022
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