Attractions

Botanic Garden

The Wellington Botanic Garden features 25 hectares of unique landscape, protected native forest, conifers, specialised plant collections, colourful floral displays, and views over Wellington city. More...

Cable Car

Wellington Cable Car is one of Wellington’s oldest and most popular tourist attractions. The cable car runs from Lambton Quay in the central business district and takes you from The Terrace past Kelburn Park and Victoria University to the top entrance of the Wellington Botanic Gardens. More...

Capital E

Capital E is the only organisation in New Zealand that gives children access to a wide range of creative technology and live performance.

It is an award-winning facility, based in Wellington, New Zealand, attracting up to 200,000 visitors each year. The National Theatre for Children also tours nationally and internationally.
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Mt Victoria Lookout

Mt Victoria (196 m) is one of Wellington's best lookout spots - affording spectacular 360º views of the city & harbour, and across to Hutt Valley and the eastern harbour.
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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Te Papa is one of the few museums in the world that can claim to have been built from scratch in the last decade. Opened in 1998, New Zealand's National Museum is widely regarded as one of the finest in the world. Twenty galleries explore the country's flora, fauna, European influences and Maori culture, including displays of weapons, bone and jade carvings, sailing craft, tribal customs and a section on the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document.

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ZEALANDIA: Karori Wildlife Sanctuary

In a forested valley just minutes from downtown Wellington, some of New Zealand’s rarest native animals are thriving and living free in a unique safe haven.

The multi-million dollar project to create a predator-free eco-sanctuary was inspired by a vision to return part of the city to its pre-human condition - a thousand years ago when the islands of New Zealand were a sanctuary for unique species that had survived from prehistoric days. More...

Zoo

Wellington Zoo is the only zoological garden in Wellington, New Zealand and is the country's oldest zoo, being first founded in 1906. Nicknamed "the best little zoo in the world", The Wellington Zoo is notable within the New Zealand conservation community for being one of the leading zoos in regards to breeding of endangered animals; indeed several Sun Bear and Sumatran tiger cubs, in addition to other. More...

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