Immersive Interactives

Vibrant data visualisations about Auckland fill the Rarau Mai Living City room. Surround yourself with data that reveals who we are as Aucklanders and the places we inhabit. Immerse yourself in the visualisations on the floor and find your neighbourhood using the interactive touchscreen to delve deeper into data about your area.

See Auckland's many histories unfold around you inside Kei Konei Koe, a 360-degree immersive audio-visual experience situated in the heart of Tāmaki Herenga Waka. Push one of four illuminated buttons to select a chapter and be transported through time from the formation of the land and harbours through to the region we know today.

Take a moment to listen to the sometimes moving, sometimes funny, always enlightening first-person accounts of historic events and stories in Tāmaki Herenga Waka. Throughout the gallery, you'll see headphones connected to some displays, many featuring video.

While the first-ever Auckland Regatta was an informal affair raced on the day Auckland was established as the new capital, it really came into its own in the 1850s. Step into the spirit of that era by cranking the handle on this detailed Victorian-style diorama and watch the action above and below the surface of the water.