The Nelson Provincial Museum

Cnr Hardy & Trafalgar Sts, Nelson

The Nelson Provincial Museum

Phone

03 548 9588

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Hours Open

Weekdays: 10am–5pm
Weekends: 10am–4:30pm
Closed on Public Holidays

Suitable for Ages

Families

New Zealand’s oldest museum, The Nelson Provincial Museum’s collections date back to 1841 when the Nelson Institute was established on ship by the New Zealand Company.

The collections include a regional social history photographic collection of over 1.5 million images, taonga Māori, art, regional archives, research library, domestic and technical objects and some natural history specimens.

In 2005 the museum opened a new regional exhibition centre on part of the original Town Acre 445 site, where The Literary and Scientific Institute of Nelson first opened in September 1842.

Archives, library and photographs are housed separately in the former museum building in Isel Park, Hilliard Street, Stoke.

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Upcoming events at The Nelson Provincial Museum

Tuku25: George’s War - Following My Father’s Journey Exhibit

Tuku25: George’s War - Following My Father’s Journey Exhibit

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Unboxed – The Collection Unpacked

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Past events at The Nelson Provincial Museum

Tuku25: Coin Pendant Workshop

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 17 Apr 2025
Public Talk: Bird Photography in the Nelson Tasman Region

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Fri 5 Apr 2024
Toi Ahiahi

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 11 Apr 2024 – Thu 2 May 2024
Book Launch: The Edwin Fox

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Wed 17 Apr 2024
The Big Dino Day Out

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 25 Jan 2025
Six Extinctions: Explore the Events That Changed the World

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Mon 16 Dec 2024 – Sun 9 Feb 2025
School Holiday Crafts

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 18 Apr 2024
Te Ara O Hine Rēhia - A Journey into the World of Kapa Haka

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sun 24 Sep 2023 – Sun 12 Nov 2023
Thank You from Ukraine

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Mon 18 Sep 2023 – Sun 1 Oct 2023
Calligraphy and Lantern-making Workshop

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 23 Sep 2023
Through the Eye of Whakatū - Nelson Arts Festival

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Fri 22 Oct 2021 – Sun 31 Oct 2021
Lockdown Laundry - Air Your Memories

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Fri 2 Oct 2020 – Sat 3 Oct 2020
Decorate Your Own Manu (Bird) Kite

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sun 12 Jul 2020
Make and Fly Your Own Kite

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 14 Jul 2020
Our Moon: Then, Now & Beyond: CANCELLED

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Fri 20 Dec 2019 – Sun 19 Apr 2020
By the Light of the Silvery Earth:Our Moon, Science & Sci-Fi

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 25 Feb 2020
Inspiration Day

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 23 Jan 2020
Weird Moons In Our Solar System

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 28 Jan 2020
Sika: Moon Explorations

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Fri 31 Jan 2020
Sika: Moonscapes

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Fri 31 Jan 2020
Moonlit Yoga

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Wed 8 Jan 2020 – Wed 29 Jan 2020
Moonshadow Puppets

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 14 Jan 2020
Cardboard Space Rockets

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 16 Jan 2020
Moon Tales

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 18 Jan 2020
Moon Mud Workshop

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 21 Jan 2020
Al Fresco Summer Movies - Trip to the Moon/A Christmas Carol

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 19 Dec 2019
A Trip to the Moon - First Men In The Moon

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 19 Dec 2019
To the Moon and Beyond Badge-making Drop-in Session

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 21 Dec 2019
Night Sky Lanterns

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sun 22 Dec 2019
Blood of The Flax: A Book Talk

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 10 Dec 2019
Kura Pounamu: Our Treasured Stone

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Mon 2 Sep 2019 – Sun 24 Nov 2019
Te Hei Tiki

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 15 Oct 2019
Women Mean Business: Colonial businesswomen, Nelson & Beyond

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 8 Oct 2019
Whakapapa Pounamu

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 24 Sep 2019
Bird-related Treasures From Our Collection

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 23 Jul 2019
Learn the Art of Screen-Printing

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 9 Jul 2019 – Thu 18 Jul 2019
Clay Sculpture Workshop

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 11 Jul 2019 – Tue 16 Jul 2019
Meet New Zealand's Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 4 Jul 2019
Extinct Giant Flightless Birds

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 25 Jun 2019
How Wikipedia Works

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 11 Jun 2019
Meet Our Kaitiaki Taonga Māori

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 21 May 2019
Nicolas Dillon - Observing Nature

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 7 May 2019
Screenprinting Workshops for Families (7 Years Plus)

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 23 Apr 2019 – Thu 25 Apr 2019
Marbled Eggs Workshop - Easter Activity

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 16 Apr 2019 – Mon 22 Apr 2019
Screen-printing Workshop for Families (6 Years and Under)

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Mon 15 Apr 2019
Life Before Dinosaurs: Permian Monsters

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Wed 26 Dec 2018 – Sat 6 Apr 2019
Screen-printing Workshop

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 6 Apr 2019
International Dimetrodon Day

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 6 Apr 2019
A Century of Saying Cheese

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Fri 17 Aug 2018 – Sun 25 Nov 2018
Trailblazers - Educating Women

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Wed 26 Sep 2018 – Sun 25 Nov 2018
Limelight Picture Show

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 13 Oct 2018 – Fri 26 Oct 2018
Te Rito, An Introduction to Harakeke (Flax Weaving)

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Wed 10 Oct 2018
Say Cheese - Photo Booth

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 4 Oct 2018 – Thu 11 Oct 2018
It All Comes Back To Thread - Embroidery Now and Then

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 7 Jul 2018 – Fri 31 Aug 2018
Night At the Museum - Local Maori Tales and Legends

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 19 Jul 2018
National Geographic 50 Greatest Photographs

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 17 Mar 2018 – Sat 30 Jun 2018
Celebrate Matariki with Taonga Pūoro

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Fri 15 Jun 2018
Bugs! Our Backyard Heroes Exhibition

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 28 Sep 2017 – Sun 15 Oct 2017
Da Vinci Robots & Machines

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 15 Apr 2017 – Sun 13 Aug 2017
Murder At Maungatapu Part Two: Trial & Executions

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Mon 30 Jan 2017 – Sun 19 Mar 2017
Chinese New Year 2017 - Year of the Fire Rooster

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 26 Jan 2017 – Sun 12 Feb 2017
From the Museum With Love

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 14 Feb 2017
Balls, Bullets & Boots

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Fri 11 Nov 2016 – Tue 7 Feb 2017
Murder At Maungatapu Part Two: Trial & Executions

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 11 Oct 2016 – Sun 29 Jan 2017
Christmas Tales From Early Nelson

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Wed 21 Dec 2016
Morbid Tales At the Museum

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Mon 31 Oct 2016
Inspiring People - 50th Anniversary of Nayland College

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 22 Sep 2016 – Sun 30 Oct 2016
Maungatapu Murderers

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Fri 24 Jun 2016 – Mon 10 Oct 2016
Memorial to Misadventure

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 7 Jul 2016 – Sun 4 Sep 2016
Women of Early Nelson - Part 2

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 8 Sep 2016
Women of Early Nelson - Part 2

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 25 Aug 2016
Memorial to Misadventure Floortalks

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 9 Jul 2016 – Thu 28 Jul 2016
The Mad, The Bad and The Bawdy: An Unauthorised History

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 16 Jun 2016 – Thu 30 Jun 2016
Victory Medal Sculpture

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 16 Apr 2016 – Sun 12 Jun 2016
Nelson Mail 150 Years 1866 - 2016

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 3 Mar 2016 – Sun 12 Jun 2016
175th Birthday of Nelson Provincial Museum

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 26 May 2016
Nelson Provincial Museum Family Fun Day

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 28 May 2016
Extraordinary Inventions

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Fri 22 Apr 2016
WW1- Their Stories - Our History

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 25 Apr 2015 – Mon 4 Apr 2016
Nelson Mail 150th Floor Talk

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 12 Mar 2016
Troubadour String Quartet Concert

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Wed 17 Feb 2016
Women of Empire Floor Talk

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Mon 1 Feb 2016
Women of Empire 1914 - 1918

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Wed 2 Dec 2015 – Mon 1 Feb 2016
Mirror Magic

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 28 Nov 2015 – Sun 17 Jan 2016
Rembrandt Remastered

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Mon 12 Oct 2015 – Sun 15 Nov 2015
Dinosaur Footprints: A Story of Discovery

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 4 Jul 2015 – Sun 13 Sep 2015
Gallipoli - In Search of a Family Story

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Fri 1 May 2015 – Sun 23 Aug 2015
A Pandemonium of Parrots

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 23 Jun 2015 – Sun 19 Jul 2015
A Pandemonium of Parrots

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sun 14 Dec 2014 – Sun 21 Jun 2015
Sir Paul Callaghan Science Academy Development Programme

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 19 May 2015 – Fri 22 May 2015
Head Above Water

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 11 Apr 2015 – Mon 13 Apr 2015
Small Matters: Art From the World of Nanotechnology

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 10 Feb 2015 – Sun 8 Mar 2015
Starting with Plants

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Wed 18 Jun 2014 – Mon 18 Aug 2014
Memories of the First World War

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 19 Jun 2014 – Sun 13 Jul 2014
Memories of the First World War

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Fri 25 Apr 2014 – Mon 2 Jun 2014
Starting with Plants

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 12 Dec 2013 – Sat 31 May 2014
Canterbury Quakes

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 1 Mar 2014 – Mon 2 Jun 2014
The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 19 Oct 2013 – Sun 26 Jan 2014
Kiwi Keith - Portrait of a PM

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 10 Aug 2013 – Sun 24 Nov 2013
Henpicked Concert

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sun 3 Nov 2013
Lynley Dodd - A Retrospective

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 20 Jul 2013 – Sun 29 Sep 2013
The Art of Science - Pioneers, Presidents & Prize Winners

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 20 Jul 2013 – Sun 29 Sep 2013
PSA Centenary Display

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 8 Aug 2013 – Wed 21 Aug 2013
Roman Machines

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 6 Apr 2013 – Sun 30 Jun 2013
Save Our Snails

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Tue 1 Jan 2013 – Sun 31 Mar 2013
Taranaki War 1860-2012 - Te Ahi Kā Roa, Te Ahi Katoro

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sun 16 Sep 2012 – Sun 24 Feb 2013
Abel Tasman 370th Commemoration: 2012

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Fri 15 Jun 2012 – Sun 27 Jan 2013
Tasman Revisited

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sun 16 Dec 2012
Tatarakihi - The Children of Parihaka

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sun 4 Nov 2012 – Mon 5 Nov 2012
An Afternoon of Music

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 13 Oct 2012
Toi Ora - Harakeke Raranga Kete Wananga - Weaving Kete

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Mon 15 Oct 2012 – Wed 17 Oct 2012
Henpicked - Terrafirma

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 13 Oct 2012
Bamiyan - The Heart of Afghanistan

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 12 May 2012 – Sun 29 Jul 2012
The Boy Who Plays On The Buddhas of Bamiyan

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 26 May 2012 – Sun 29 Jul 2012
Windows to another world

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Wed 4 Jul 2012 – Fri 13 Jul 2012
Bamiyan - The Heart of Afghanistan Exhibition Tour

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 7 Jul 2012 – Sun 15 Jul 2012
Christchurch Boys Choir

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 5 Jul 2012
Rugby - Celebrating Grassroots and All Blacks

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sun 7 Aug 2011 – Mon 31 Oct 2011
An evening with Andy Dalton

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Thu 14 Jul 2011
Hard on the Heels

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Sat 14 May 2011 – Sun 17 Jul 2011
Port Nelson Haven Ahoy - Public Lecture

The Nelson Provincial Museum, Wed 9 Mar 2011

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