Tūhura Otago Museum

Was founded in 1868 and has a collection of over two million artefacts and specimens from the fields of natural history and ethnography. There is also a (paid entry) "Discovery World Tropical Forest". This features a variety of flora and fauna from around the globe, as well as many species of butterfly from Asia and South America. There are around 1,000 butterflies flying at any one time, and the Forest also has tarantulas, birds, fish, turtles and geckos.

• free
• museum
• outdoors
• history

Address

419 Great King Street

Hours

Daily 10AM-5PM

Price

Free but donations welcomed. Charges for special exhibitions

Website

otagomuseum.nz (opens in a new tab)