The Police are back together and on a world tour. This date finds them performing at the Westpac Trust Stadium in Wellington.

New Zealand play England at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington in the first one-day cricket international of a five-match series.

Legendary avant-garde jazzman Ornette Coleman performs at the Wellington Convention Centre. His first album for more than a decade, Sound Grammar, was released in 2007.

New Zealand play England in the second Test of a three-match series at Basin Reserve in Wellington.

New Zealand goes film crazy during its annual nationwide series of film festivals. The event starts here in Auckland's theatres and cinemas and then tours round the North and South Islands'…

As part of the countrywide tour, Wellington hosts its leg of the New Zealand Film Festival, which visits 15 different cities. Expect more or less the same programme as the Auckland Festival…

Te Papa is one of the few museums in the world that can claim to have been built from scratch in the last decade. Opened in 1998, New Zealand's National Museum is widely regarded as one of the…

Built in 1912, His Majesty's Theatre (as it was then called) was the largest vaudeville theatre and cinema in Australasia, ornate and sumptuous. Now the Westpac St James Theatre, it has been…

Wellington Zoo is home to around 350 exotic and unusual animals including New Zealand's very own prehistoric reptile, the Tuatara, which in Maori means "spiny-backed". It's a must if…

A wildlife reserve for endangered species is not the kind of attraction you expect to find in a country's political and cultural capital, but this is New Zealand and the Karori Wildlife…

When opened on 10 May 2003, the Christchurch Art Gallery or Te Puna o Waiwhetu became home to one of New Zealand's most important public art collections of British and European paintings. Its…

Opened on Easter Saturday 1914, and originally known as the Grand Opera House, Wellington's Opera House was designed by Melbourne architect William Pitt and supervised by architect Albert Liddy.

The Wellington Waterfront is leisure heaven for the New Zealand capital's population, with a host of activities on offer including kayaking around the harbour, cycling, shopping, dining…

Courtenay Place is Wellington's entertainment district, historically Chinatown, but increasingly busy with trendy bars and restaurants serving Malaysian, European and Pacific Rim cuisines.

In 1974, the University of Christchurch moved from its central city location and made way for the Arts Centre of Christchurch (Te Pokapû Toi o Ôtautahi) to develop the campus' Gothic revival…

The Wellington Cable Car is one of the city's oldest attractions, opened in 1902 to connect Lambton Quay in the central business district with the Botanic Garden and the suburb of Kelburn.…

Cuba Street is Wellington's answer to London's Camden Market - a long, bustling market street crammed with quirky NZ designers, second-hand record shops, retro clothes and design classics made…