Space Place

Close to the Cable Car Museum is Space Place, an interactive exploring space, stories of our New Zealand skies through multimedia exhibits, interactive galleries, the historic Thomas Cooke telescope and digital, full-dome planetarium. Learn about planets, stars, constellations and galaxies and New Zealand’s contribution to astronomy and space sciences. Complete your trip through the galaxy, look back in time to our history of exploration with the transit of Venus and Māori starlore. Invite your friends and family to check out Keep up to date with what’s going on in our universe and beyond here. There are admission fees. Return on the cable car to Lambton Quay for a stroll through the heart of Wellington’s premier shopping district to Te Papa.