Making New Zealand

Explore New Zealand's pioneering engineering, building and architectural luminaires, highlighting our most iconic buildings such as Dunedin's Railway Station and Auckland's Civic Theatre.

This is the story of how Kiwis learned to spread their wings and take flight. Through trial and error, a civil aviation industry was born that opened up a whole new world for New Zealanders.

With wealth blanketing the land, forestry became one of New Zealand's earliest industries. Discover our history, and how the beauty of our native forests was almost realised too late.

Unearth how mining the country's riches played a fundamental role in the making of New Zealand, as landscapes were altered and whole towns were made and lost and made again.