The Museum is fully open and operating under Level 1 guidelines. Find out what this means.

Through The Lens presents the work of a trio of highly-acclaimed local photographers, known as the ‘Toru Collective’ – Braden Fastier, Tatsiana Chypsanava and Andy MacDonald, each with a unique view of the Nelson Tasman region.

The Museum is fully open and operating under Level 2 guidelines. Find out what this means.

A new art installation at the Nelson Provincial Museum presents a puzzling new angle on what many regard as one of the most damaging decisions ever made for New Zealand’s native flora and fauna.

A portrait of early Nelson businessman and landowner Edward Green, painted by the world-renowned artist Gottfried Lindauer, has been donated to the Nelson Provincial Museum.

Rugby 150 Years On – an exhibition originally launched online as a result of New Zealand’s nationwide lockdown – is now on display at the Nelson Provincial Museum.

“Monday, June 17th 1929, began as a typical Murchison winter’s morning, very still and calm, cold and foggy.” However, at 10.17am everything changed. Find out more about the 1929 Murchison earthquake through our online exhibition.

The Nelson Provincial Museum has launched its first online exhibition, Rugby 150 Years On, in response to access restrictions to the Museum during COVID-19 Alert Levels.

We're so grateful to our essential workers, who have been working hard on the front line to keep us all fed, safe and healthy during New Zealand’s COVID-19 Alert Level 4.

The Nelson Provincial Museum and Nelson Public Libraries are encouraging people from the Nelson Tasman region to record their experiences as they move through the COVID-19 Alert Levels.

We’ve taken the donkey work out of our image delivery service… no more paper-based forms required - you can now order your image online.

When Bryan and Mairéad Calder first pledged their commitment to each other in Lough Wildlife Sanctuary in Ireland, they never imagined they’d be doing it all again, 19 years later, beneath a giant, inflatable Moon.

Prepare for a close encounter with the Moon this summer. Literally! The Nelson Provincial Museum is excited to launch its latest major exhibition into the Nelson Tasman orbit on Friday, 20 December.

An exhibition of more than 200 pounamu greenstone treasures is coming to Nelson Provincial Museum next month.

RELEASED 15 JUNE 2018

This Friday, the Nelson Provincial Museum will celebrate the beginning of the Māori New Year, Matariki, with two public performances of traditional Māori musical instruments from the Museum’s own collection.

RELEASED 7 MAY 2018

The Nelson Provincial Museums latest exhibition 50 Greatest Photographs of National Geographic, which opened to the public on the 17th March, has had its run extended by another month due to popular demand.

RELEASED 16 March 2018

In 1985 National Geographic Magazine ran on its cover a photograph by American Steve McCurry – a simple portrait of a green eyed Afghan girl taken in a refugee camp in Pakistan. That photograph became one of the most iconic images ever published, in the nearly 130-year history of the magazine.  Afghan Girl, as the image became known, will feature in the Nelson Provincial Museums latest international exhibition 50 Greatest Photographs of National Geographic, opening to the public 17 March 2018.

RELEASED 28 September 2017

Bugs may have a reputation for being small, scaly and scary but the Nelson Provincial Museum is out to prove that creepy crawlies are actually superheroes in disguise with the opening of Bugs! Our Backyard Heroes.

RELEASED 29 November 2017

Nelson Provincial Museum has received a prestigious UNESCO honour with the inscription of the Tyree Studio Collection onto the UNESCO Memory of the World New Zealand documentary heritage register.