The restoration of the 19th Century Loaded Mine Store on the Navy Museum site began in late 2019 and was completed and opened to the public in early 2021.
View a selection of images from the restoration.
Loaded Mine Store Restoration
We're featuring
- 80th Anniversary WRNZNS
- Caesar The Anzac Dog
- Celebrating First Female Chaplain
- Dear Midge
- First Aid at Sea in the Second World War
- Five Power Defence Arrangements
- Fleet Air Arm Flight Jacket
- Grave Marker - Artefact Unpacked
- He Rā Maumahara
- He Rā Maumahara - Remembering the New Zealand Wars
- Images Battle of Kolombangara
- International Women's Day
- Loaded Mine Store Restoration
- Meet Andrew
- Meet Ashleigh
- Meet David
- Meet Euan
- Meet Jane
- Meet Jasmine
- Meet Lewis
- Meet Lori
- Meet Olivia
- Meet Paula
- Meet Steve
- Meet Tania
- Meet Thomas
- Mine Store Restoration
- Naval Cloak
- Navigate with the Navy
- New Collection Items - Autumn 2023
- New Collection Items - Autumn 2024
- New Collection Items - Winter 2023
- New Museum Trail
- Operation Science Exhibition
- Over Seas - Mā te Moana
- Looking back on the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
- Red Bicycle
- Santa Flag
- Sinking of Mikhail Lermontov
- SLT (A) Thomas Glen McBride
- Sweetheart Badges
- Te Kiwi Māia T-shirt and Contemporary Collecting
- Vietnam War Propaganda Leaflets - Artefact Unpacked
- The Wartime Artwork of Owen (Miles) Spence
- We Remember