Te rohe | - Location
Cnr Molesworth/Aitken Streets, Thorndon, Wellington

Ngā haora mahi | - Opening hours
Mon-Fri 9am-5pm
Sat 9am-4:30pm
Sun 1pm-4:30pm

Te utu | - Admission
Free

The National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, located across from Parliament, is one of the country's leading cultural and information centres. It holds rich and varied collections of research material, and houses the Alexander Turnbull Library, a "library within a library" specialising in documentary materials ­ books, manuscripts, photographs, drawings and prints, music, newspapers, maps, oral history tapes ­ relating to New Zealand and the Pacific.

Public exhibitions of material from the Library's heritage collections, and from sources outside the Library, are on regular display in the Gallery, and murals and works of art from the Library's contemporary art collection can be seen throughout the building. The Gallery runs a lively public events programme, and some exhibitions tour to other parts of the country so that people throughout New Zealand can view the priceless treasures the Library holds in trust for them.

Ngā momo kohinga -
Collection Strengths

Social history

• Reference library

• Guided tours

• Wheelchair access

• Café

• Shop

• Other facilities

  Public programmes/auditorium

• Postal address

  P O Box 1467, Wellington

• Phone number

  64-4-474 3000

• Email address

  peter.ireland@natlib.govt.nz

• Website

  http://www.natlib.govt.nz