Photos taken 17 October 2014
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| The Museum of Wellington City & Sea, housed in the former Wellington Harbour Board Head Office and Bond Store. Built to replace an older wooden building from the 1860s, this building was designed in the French Second Empire style and completed in 1892. It now houses three floors of exhibits and artefacts related to the history of Wellington. |
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| Visitors enter the museum galleries through a recreation of what the Bond Store would have looked like in its heyday, piled high with barrels, bales, and sacks of goods offloaded from freighters. |
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| A recreated bookkeeper's desk. |
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| As a bonded cargo warehouse, the Bond House stored cargo requiring the payment of customs duty before being released to importers. |
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| The ground floor gallery, Telling Tales, recounts one story of Wellington's history for each year from 1900 to the present. |
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| Telling Tales features a diverse range of artefacts on display, from statues, clothing, and models to personal affects, furniture, and documents. |
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| A replica set of the British Crown jewels, created for the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in 1939. |
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| The boardroom of the Wellington Harbour Board, with a giant framed map of Wellington harbour mounted on the wall behind the Chairman's seat. |
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| A large model of the steel, four-masted barque Pamir. The ship was built in Germany in 1905 and used to haul nitrates from Chile to Europe and, later, grain from South Australia to Europe via Cape Horn. Seized by the New Zealand government as a war prize whilst in Wellington harbour in August 1941, the ship was used by New Zealand's Union Steamship Line to carry cargo to San Francisco, Vancouver, and Sydney, as well as make a circumnavigation of the globe to London and Antwerp. Returned to her original German owners in 1948, Pamir served as a cargo-carrying auxiliary training ship before foundering in the North Atlantic during Hurricane Carrie on 21 September 1957. Eighty of the eighty-six crewmen aboard died. The brass binnacle cover on the left is from the steam-powered grab dredger Kerimoana (1938-1981). |
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| A model of the 8,303 gross ton passenger and vehicle ferry TEV Maori. Built at Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK in 1953, Maori could carry 966 passengers and 70-80 cars, as built. Modified to a roll-on/roll-off configuration in 1965, Maori's new capacity was 790 passengers and 100 cars. Withdrawn from service in 1972, Maori was sold for scrapping and broken up at Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1974. Over its service life, Maori steamed 1,082,134 nautical miles, made approximately 6,000 crossings of the Cook Strait, and carried 1,239,772 passengers. |
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| A recreated ship's cabin installed in the museum. |
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| Models and artefacts from various ferries serving the inter-island route from Wellington to New Zealand's South Island. |
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| A diorama depicting the sinking of the Union Steamship Company roll-on/roll-off passenger and vehicle ferry Wahine on 10 April 1968. The Wahine foundered on Barrett Reef at the entrance to Wellington harbour during a severe storm and sank, killing 53 of the 610 passengers and 123 crew aboard. The disaster occurred a short distance from the shores of Wellington's eastern suburbs and was extensively covered by the media at the time. |
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| Artefacts and memorabilia from the Wahine. |
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| The Museum of Wellington City & Sea covers three floors of the former Bond House. The building's original wooden pillars and floors and iron fasteners are well preserved. |
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| The top floor of the museum features galleries devoted to the history of Wellington, covering the city's early political, economic, educational, and social history. |
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| A display on haberdashery profiles Wellington's Hill and Sons Hat and Cap Manufacturers, established in 1875. Sold by the Hill family in 1955, the company is still producing hats today. |
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A Maori sculpture incorporating intricate wood carving and woven fabric.
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