National Library of New Zealand Review

I visited the library and the cafe, wonderfully helpful staff who expalined where the computers were for me. I spent two hours in the computers and had a short walk around the exhibitions there, i was a little disappointed that the original treaty documents were not on show, due to restoration requirements, but it was nice to see them properly.

The guys on security are the best. If you need any help head to the lower ground level and they can help to you out

At 68 I've left it a it late to make full use of this wonderful place; but I'm going to give it my best shot.

I don't hate the national library - I was passing it, at the end of a long walk

Very nice place. During my stay i was able to play Piano here. Thanks very much for enabling this!

Very nice place for touring; good and comfy cafe as well

Very good library, spacious, quiet, with lots of places to work upstairs.
Only small defect, the opening hours are not very wide.
The cafe on the ground floor opens earlier.

Great place to get some work done. If you want a quiet spot head upstairs. Downstairs near the cafe can get busy and noisy. Was great when you could get cafe food sent directly to you desk but they've stopped that now.

We went down to Wellington Queens birthday weekend specificly to see the Gallipoli exhibition at Te Papa & the treaty at the National library. Checked your website to see if you were open on Monday, yes 5th June was on there, even telling us what was happening. So off we went in the wet & cold, walked up there only to find it not open!! Disappointed, surely it wouldn't have been difficult to put a note on the Web last week, saying "it's closed". To add salt to the wound the Cathedral wasn't open either!

For any book lover or history lover this place is well worth the visit.

Very helpful staff. Can request items online and they will put aside for you. Very quite atmosphere and it have to really be willing to study your material whilst you are there, as some of it is not allowed to leave the library because that is how special it is. Some material you are allowed to take photos for your own use. Really like this place for looking for non-mainstream material.

Great experience. Tanya was excellent guide for speakers of other languages!

I'm only reviewing the library cafe since I didn't spend time in the library itself.

If half stars can be given I would rate this place a 3 1/2 stars. I love the idea of combining a library and a cafe. The cafe was nice. The staff was friendly, coffee was great and pastries were really good as well. It's definitely a nice little spot to meet a friend for a coffee, or take a library break to read a book at.

Great Library and friendly staff

Beautiful Library located right in the city center, staff was proactively come to ask if we needed any information

Worth a visit

lovely place, utterly huge and curiously devoid of books

Friendly, welcoming environment - hosts downstairs more than happy to help with explaining the locker system for your bags.

Very interesting place, with v important documents like the Treaty of Waitangi. All NZers should visit.

Great exhibition of waitangi treaty. You get to be in the same space as all 9 documents. Can take photos, no flashlight as it can damage the documents, no food and drink. Free lockers available near the entrance. Guided tour available, disable entrance/toilet, pram access, Baby room available on the ground floor. Well designed space, good use of technologies, everything is in all three NZ official languages, Cafe inside. Great place to spend an afternoon and learn some nz history.

Viewing the Treaty of Waitangi is a must-do activity for any Kiwi. A great display and an excellent interactive experience. Quite moving actually.