Whangarei Museum and Kiwi House at Heritage Park Whangarei Museum & Heritage Trust's plans are a redesign, interactive displays with audio-visual technology and other exciting projects.

Future Plans


Kiwi North


This major regional capital project will provide a single new community facility and tourist attraction through the merger of our Kiwi House and existing Museum buildings

This new complex will include a nocturnal Kiwi House and totally refurbished Museum with a new research facility, special exhibition gallery, improved collection storage, an enlarged shop and a quality café.

Interactive displays will tell the story of our unique Northland landscape, our native flora and fauna and the human impact on this landscape. This story will be explored using our collections of natural history material, Taonga Maori, industrial collections and early settler material with the addition of live specimens (kiwi, gecko, tuatara, eel and native fishes), combined with the latest audio-visual technology and up to date interpretation methods.

We have been working on this exciting project for some months now and have consulted widely on the Thematic Plan, which has met with sound approval. H&K Architects of Whangarei are working on the upgrade and re-design of the existing Museum and Kiwi House and Workshop E from Wellington are producing designs for the Museum displays.

Once these concepts are finalized and costed we plan to launch a major fundraising campaign in early 2008

More about the Kiwi North project


Northland Naturally - Official Northland Website   Member of the Northland Sustainable Tourism Charter Project   Australasian Regional Association of Zoological Parks and Aquaria   New Zealand Conservation Management Group   The Museums of New Zealand