View New Zealand's largest live collection of the native lizard the tuatara in the world at the Southland Museum and Art Gallery, a place where people can learn from the displays and exhibitions, the Museum and Art Gallery's extensive reference collections provide a valuable resource.

Visit and take a tour of Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter. The NZAS smelter features a carbon plant, four reduction lines and a metal casting facility. The plant employs about 900 staff.



Meander through the bird aviary, animal enclosures, children’s play areas, extensive sporting facilities and cafes, an indoor Winter Garden features tropical and flowering plants and cacti, as well as the Japanese garden and rose gardens decorating 80 hectares of Queens Park.

Wonder at the craftsmanship of Fred and Myrtle’s Paua House and experience the largest display of paua shells in New Zealand - a house entirely decorated in abalone shell.