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If past and history interests you then you must visit the Bank of New Zealand Museum in Wellington. It is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city. The Bank of New Zealand Museum in Wellington showcases nearly 150 years of banking history in New Zealand. You can see on display the living archive of the bank and those that interact with it like the customers, staff and the community. The Bank of New Zealand Museum exhibits and tracks the development of banking technology as well as provides a fascinating insight into the social and architectural heritage of our country.

Brief about the Bank of New Zealand:

Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) is one of New Zealand's largest banks. The first branch of this bank opened in Dunedin on 2nd of December, 1861. The Bank of New Zealand is a 25% shareholder in Loyalty New Zealand Limited and the operator of Fly Buys in New Zealand. It is the only bank in New Zealand to have its own museum.

Some of the displays in Bank of New Zealand Museum:

• Notes and coins of the older days - that displays the gold rush and the currency used in the past.
  
  
• The technological development of the bank from the manual adding machine to computers is also shown.
  
  
• It also shows the working environment, recruitment, banking services and women working in the banks
  
  
• It also exhibits the decimal Currency – the introduction to dollars and cents from pounds, shillings and pence.
  
  
• The architecture of the old bank buildings are also put on display
  
  
• Sponsorship – involvement of the Bank in the community
  
  
• The advertising posters and television advertisements are also put up in exhibition
  
  
• The tourists can also see on display the hands-on activities, which include the old typewriters, coin rubbings and sealing wax.