The National Museum of New Zealand
新西兰国家博物馆
新西兰国家博物馆生落在惠灵顿皇后湾附近，地处市中心，是新西兰唯一由政府管理的博物馆。博物馆始建于1933年，1986年后进行了搬迁和扩建，1998年2月新馆开馆，每天前往参观的人员络绎不绝。
博物馆建筑风格独特，馆藏丰富。该馆占地36 000平方米，其中14 000平方米为参观游览区。建筑使用了80 000立方米混凝土和20 000立方米的加固钢材，耗资3.5亿新元。
该馆设备现代化程度很高，有抗强震装置，馆内温度和湿度可自动调控。主要展厅有：海洋地质和地貌展厅、生物展厅、毛利建筑、习俗和传统艺术展厅。我国北京市人民政府赠送的张衡地动仪（复制品）陈列在地质展厅（Awesome Forces）内。
该博物馆具有很强的教育功能，观众可以通过动手、观看影视片和听取解说了解和学习相关知识。
Te Papa is New Zealand，s national museummuseum n.博物馆， situated on Wellington，s waterfront. The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (commonly known as Te Papa)， opened in Wellington in 1998. This national museum features cuttingedge exhibits on New Zealand，s culture， history， and natural environment. The Auckland War Memorial Museum is the country，s other large and wellvisited museum. Both museums attract more than 1 million visitors a year. New Zealand also has about 400 small museums and art galleries， many of them showing works of local artists. Its key tasks are to preservepreserve vt.保护， 保持， 保存， 保藏 vi.做蜜饯， 禁猎 n.蜜饯， 果酱， 禁猎地， 禁区， 防护物 and present the taonga (treasures) of New Zealand，s peoples and to interpret the country，s heritage for national and international audiencesaudience n.听众， 观众， 接见， 拜见.
Te Papa could be adequately described as a new museum for a new people in the new millennium. It replaces the old museum built in 1936 and the colonialera national museum established in 1865， when the country，s sensibilities were notably different than they are today. The new national museum of New Zealand is an appropriate ambassadorambassador n.大使 of its people， their culture， and way of life. Clean， creative， and lively， the building reflects the world around it. Quirky additions like modern interpretations of the flying buttress， and aboriginal markings are less symbols of something else， and more the parts that make the whole. And a strong profile shows how the building， like the nation， manages to carve out a proud life for itself， in spite of the forces of nature and probability. One of the forces tugging at it is the motion of the earth. New Zealand has a lively geologicgeologic adj.地质(学)的，地质(学)上的 history， so extra steps were taken to make the building resistant to earthquakes. The foundation rests on massive shock absorbers designed to isolate the building from any sudden movements.
Its mission is to be a forum for the nation to present， explore， and preserve the heritage of its cultures and knowledge of the natural environment in order to better understand and treasure the past， enrich the present， and meet the challenges of the future.
Te Papa has a wide range of permanent and changing exhibitions， as well as educational programmes， films， speakers and forums on issues of cultural diversity. Its meeting facilities and theatre are widely used for conferences， public forums and cultural performances. Its website carries a wide range of background information as well as details of current exhibitions and activities. As part of its commitment to the New Zealand Diversity Action Programme， Te Papa has contributed its Qui Tutto Bene： Community Gallery Programme， which showcases the stories of diverse New Zealand communities.
Larnach Castle
朗尼克城堡
这幢被称为“新西兰唯一城堡”的建筑，除了音乐厅，会客厅等等，其实只有4/5间卧室——和想像中的城堡规模当然差得远，但是在当年，也是请来欧洲各国的工匠，花费12年之久来建造这个城堡的。屋顶地板等包括钉子几乎全是他们亲手制成，光是玻璃就从法国进口了12吨，旋转的扶手并不是用加温的手法弯曲，而是整根从一颗原木里调出来。浴室里购自意大利的大理石浴缸据说重达一吨。这里到市区开车要20分钟，那么以当时的交通工具到城里大概需要至少半天的时间吧——这可能也是这里的各任女主人不快乐的原因之一。在那个年代，能够决定在这个偏远的地方花巨资建造一个欧洲式的城堡足以证明朗尼克是一个非常有野心的人。
从外观上判断，朗尼克城堡的雄伟程度是绝对不能与欧洲地区的城堡相提并论，但是在纽西兰人的心目中，其地位却是无与伦比，因为它是纽西兰唯一的城堡式建筑，而围绕朗尼克城堡的故事也是引人入胜的原因之一。
朗尼克先生三位妻子皆相继死亡，他最疼爱的女儿凯迪也在过完21岁生日后不久因伤寒过世，朗尼克先生特别为凯迪21岁生日建造的舞厅后来也一直被搁置，现今则成为达尼丁当地人最受欢迎的婚宴场地。朗尼克先生虽然活跃于新西兰的商界与政坛，但是却躲不过绯闻的困扰，1898年朗尼克先生以不明原因在国会大楼结束自己的生命，经过几年的流转，城堡竟被渐渐荒废，后来辗转卖给巴克家族，据说重建时，城堡里面空空如也，许多原来的装饰都是巴克家族在拍卖会上陆续买回。
在朗尼克城堡没有导览，不过会提供一份详尽的资料，自己可以依着资料仔细对照，深入观察富豪生活的全貌，来到此地参观城堡，也可选择住宿城堡旁的朗尼克别馆（Larnach Lodge），那么晚餐就可以在城堡里精致的餐厅用餐，感受一下大户人家的气息。
Larnach Castle is a most unusual hotel. The only castlecastle n.城堡 in New Zealand， it is the centerpiececenterpiece n.中心装饰品， (餐桌中央的摆饰) of a 35acre property atop a hill midway along the Otago Peninsula， eight miles from the city of Dunedin on the east cost of the country，s South Island.
It was built between 1871 and 1876 for Australian born merchant， banker and politician William J.M. Larnach， his heiress wife Eliza Jane and their six children. No expense was spared. Top quality materials were acquired： marble from Italy， glass from Venice， tiles from England.Then punted across the harbor and dragged up the 1，000foot hill by oxdrawn sleds.
Glass enclosed Colonial style verandasveranda n.阳台， 走廊 wrap around the first two floors of the Gothic Revival stone castle. Inside are the only Georgia hanging staircase in the southern hemisphere， a priceless Venetian glass wall， ornately carved plaster ceilings and many other noteworthynoteworthy adj.值得注目的， 显着的 features.
Amid all this finery， though， ghosts are believed to wander.
Both the first and second Mrs. Larnachs， who were halfsisters， died in the castle at age 38. The first Mrs. Larnach died alone of apoplexyapoplexy n.［医］中风， all other members of the family being away at the time. She is said to make her presence felt near the bedroom in which she died.
The Larnachs， daughter Katie is said to haunt the ballroom， built to celebrate her 21st birthday in 1886. She died just a few years later of typhoid.
The specter of Larnach himself might linger in the castle. In 1898， after learning of an affair between his young third wife and one of his sons from his first marriage， he ended his life by shooting himself in the head.