Te Unua Museum of Southland — Attraction in Invercargill City

I love my local Museum. The temporary exhibitions are always well worth dropping by to check out. Make some time in your lunch hour or on the way home. I especially love some of the quirkier displays. All is not perfect though. The building, is now out of time and out of place. Time to rip of the roof and build a structure that wont be limited in space by the terrible pyramid design. Get some of those items out of storage and up on display where they are meant to be. The building design was very cutting edge and impressive when first built but it has not aged well. Minerva is very lucky to have her back to the museum. Imagine how stunning she would look in front of a tall graceful building that blended with the magnificent Queens Park. The staff are great and the museum is a great place to take your children. We are very lucky to have such free easy access to the Tuatara and...

This museum is truly a diamond in the rough. Not to say that Invercargill isn't cool--but the Southland Museum is just that much better. Easily one of the coolest and best-kept museums I've ever been to, and I've been to a few museums. Rich in natural, anthropological, biological, and geological history, this museum and art gallery is probably in my top five all-time favorites simply for how clean, friendly, detailed, and welcoming it is. The tuataras are a...

Great place and the kids loved it. It's a shame that we didn't get to see Henry as we came in not long after it opened and it was too cold for him to come out of cover. If you wish to see Henry and his friends in winter, it's best to come in around lunch...