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Te Whare Taonga o Waikato Museum & Gallery is Hamilton's regional museum and art gallery, opened in 1987 in a building by Ivan Mercep on the bank of the Waikato River, on Ngāti Wairere land. Its collections cover art, social history, science and tangata whenua, and its centrepiece is Te Winika, a carved waka taua (war canoe) about 200 years old.
Free entryNo ticket needed
botanical garden · Hamilton Closed now
Hamilton Gardens is a 54-hectare public park on the banks of the Waikato River in the south of Hamilton, begun in 1960 on a former waste disposal site. Its Enclosed Gardens show garden styles from different cultures and periods, among them the Indian Char Bagh, Japanese, Chinese and Italian Renaissance gardens and Te Parapara, a Māori productive garden.
Official site
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