Product Overview

Tūhura Otago Museum is more than a museum. Home to New Zealand’s largest science centre with a three-storey slide, an indoor tropical forest filled with rainforest butterflies, and 43 other hands-on interactives, it is hours of family fun. There is also the only 3D planetarium in Australasia with live shows and screenings on daily. Tūhura Otago Museum has eight free galleries telling the story of nature, culture, and science of Otago, New Zealand, and the world with a collection of over 1.5 million objects and taoka. There are free makerspaces during holidays where you can create something wonderful, events from workshops to talks on most nights, and explosive free science shows every weekend.

Product Description

Galleries
With the largest Southern Māori collection in the world, the largest fossil in New Zealand, and a vast collection of weapons, textiles, and treasures from around the world, take a wander through our free gallery spaces and immerse yourself in history, knowledge and beauty. We have free tours daily, and make sure you visit Dunedin’s favourite gallery – Animal Attic, a museum within a museum filled with Victorian taxidermy.

Science Centre
Take a ride with a bike-riding skeleton, see live tarantulas and giant African millipedes up-close and step into the Void for the best selfie in town. This is the biggest science centre in New Zealand and the only bicultural science centre in the world. Get a whole day pass and come in and out for a day of learning and fun.

Perpetual Guardian Planetarium
Enter the planetarium and take a trip through space! With live shows for kids and adults, and film screenings daily, the planetarium is an immersive entertainment experience. The planetarium is a theatre with a screen on a domed ceiling that stretches down and around you. Relax back on reclined seating and take a trip among the stars in the only 3D planetarium in Australasia.

Café
Come and refuel at our Café with a wide selection of menu items, cabinet food, kids meals, and some of the best coffee in Dunedin

Shop
The Otago Museum Shop has a gift for everyone. There are homewares, souvenirs, tech, locally-made design, jewellery, and art, and the best place for children’s gifts in town. The Shop is full of thousands of products, and you will surely find something you love.

Events
We have a huge array of events on, with something on most evenings. Create a bespoke perfume or screen print a t-shirt at Wine + Design, get a tour of our seldom-seen basement collection while sampling locally produced gin, or join one of the late night Museum openings at After Dark, Up Late, or Pyjamarama. See our list of upcoming events here.