Petone Settlers Museum

Petone Settlers Museum is a neighborhood history museum positioned within the Wellington Provincial Centennial Memorial, a ancient building in Petone, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. The building become at the start built to mark the Wellington province's centennial commemorations; the museum opened in the constructing in 1977. The constructing was significantly refurbished in 2016. The Wellington Centennial Provincial.

Memorial building is placed at the Petone in the beginning 'Pito-one', or 'give up of the sandy seashore foreshore and memorializes the website in which neighborhood Maori welcomed the primary deliver sporting organized British settlers to Wellington on 22 January 1840. The positioning of the building is approximate, as opposed to precise. Local Te Ati Awa chiefs along with Te Puni and Te Wharepouri bought tracts of land across the Wellington harbor to the New Zealand Company to offer land for agreement. The original agreement turned into constructed near Te Puni's pa in Petone.