Selection of 60 portraits by prominent Whanganui photographer William James Harding, from the collection held by the Alexander Turnbull Library.

Taonga (treasures) Maori have been gathered together around the great waka taua (war canoe) Te Mata-o-Hoturoa in Te Atihaunui-a-Paparangi, the Maori Court. They bind together the people of the awa (river), their stories and the great awa itself.

Every month, as part of the ongoing Outfit of the Month series, the Museum exhibits a special item from its extensive fashion and textile collection. 

The Port of Whanganui has a dramatic history and is now making a brave comeback.

Fashion from the 1890s and the 1990s. A vibrant celebration of two very different decades of fashion from the Whanganui Regional Museum collection.

Paintings of Maori tupuna (ancestors) by Gottfried Lindauer.

The geological beginnings of the notable Whanganui Basin and the first creatures to live here.

Beaked whales dive deep under the sea off the Whanganui and Taranaki coast. They are magnificent and mysterious.

The Friends School, Native Schools along the Whanganui River and Whanganui Girls College all feature.

Remarkable scientists, educators and scholars who have lived and worked in Whanganui and influenced the world.