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Saturday, 11 June 2022. Join the Mercury Bay Museum, Mercury Twin Cinemas and HMS Buffalo Re-examination Unit to bring you the first New Zealand screening of Land of a Thousand Sorrows Revisited.
The Museum has been a little quiet lately with a reduced number of visitors. The visitors that are still coming through however have travelled from some distances – Whanganui, Nelson and Christchurch just to name a few. So New Zealanders are still travelling around...
On Monday 22nd November 2021, the Government announced its intention to move Aotearoa New Zealand into the COVID-19 Protection Framework from Thursday 2nd December 2021 at 11:59pm. With this move to the framework the Mercury Bay Museum has today confirmed that it will...
It has been a busy time at the Museum recently with arrival of not one or two, but now six pieces of timber that we believe are from the shipwreck HMS Buffalo. Over the weekend of 28th May we received a total of five timbers that were collected from the beach with the...
22 May 2021 from 6-8pm The Mercury Bay Museum is hosting a: Murder Mystery Night Fundraiser Tickets will be limited so be in quick. Duration 2 hoursPrepaid tickets are $30.00 each Tickets on sale now Dress up as your your character which will be given to you on...
30 April 2021 Duration: 1 hour 30min Venue: The Monkey House Club, Whitianga A public evening with presentations and a panel discussion around the shipwreck of the HMS Buffalo in Whitianga. Maritime archaeologists Kurt Bennett & Matthew Gainsford, along with...
30 April 2021 from 11am Duration 2 hours Come and join us for a fun session of digging deep to find the artefacts! Archaeologists discover sites that need to be "dug". The process is very pain stakingly slow but these archaeological sites can tell us a lot about...
28 April 2021 from 11am Duration 2 hours Come and join us for a fun session of archaeology detective work!! Archaeologists can learn a lot about who was living in places by the rubbish that they find in archaeological sites. Food scraps, tools & clothing can...
27 April 2021 Duration 2 hours Come and join us for a fun session of going potty!! Archaeologists can learn a lot about pottery fragments found in archaeological sites. Shape, material and decoration can reveal a vessels construction, function and age! Join us to...
Located in the Soldiers Memorial Park, Whitianga, sits a cast-iron ordnance that is semi-encased in a contemporary concrete support. Two plaques on the front of the concrete base read that it is the cannon from HMS Buffalo, yet it almost looks too short and stumpy to...
The HMS Buffalo Re-examination Project is crossing its fingers for fine weather and smooth seas this coming weekend. A team of 10 volunteer divers led by maritime archaeologists Matthew Gainsford and Kurt Bennett will be surveying the wreck over the two days. ...
We have started 2021 off with fabulous numbers of visitors through the doors. These visitors are from all over Aotearoa New Zealand. Its awesome to see that people are getting out there and seeing their own country! Thank you to everyone who has visited us and if...
10am to 3pm*
Closed Sunday & Monday
* except Christmas/Boxing Day, Good Friday,
Easter Sunday and Anzac Day.
11A The Esplanade, Whitianga
Opposite the wharf.
Wheelchair access & parking is available on The Esplanade.
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Adults $5.00
Children Under 14 are free with an accompanying adult
Groups 10+ please contact us re your visit.
Last admission is 45 minutes prior to closing
**vaccination certificates are a requirement to enter for people 12 years and over**
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