The first collection of the Military Memorial Museum began to form on the day of its foundation, and replenished until now. At the very beginning of its existence, the museum was intended to preserve and demonstrate the features of the local flora and fauna, art and relics of the local population, as well as the culture arrived on the ground in New Zealand settlers. During the second half of the 19th century there was a sizeable increase in the exhibits. They were collected impressive archaeological and ethnographic collections of Maori. Among them are three fully assembled housing Maori 1830s, as well as war canoe the same time.

Museum collection gathered from throughout Polynesia and the Pacific, European and Asian countries. Here are the objects of applied art, marine and terrestrial vertebrates and invertebrates, more than 1200 photos, paintings, musical instruments and relevant scientific work.

The collection "History of Humanity" takes care of almost 200 thousand exhibits, which reflect the 150-year history of New Zealand. Meeting "Natural" contains almost 1, 5 million pieces of the areas of botany, entomology, zoology inhabitants of New Zealand and the Pacific. "The collection of paintings" - a collection of photos, drawings, paintings, slides and negatives with the information of global significance.

Anyone can visit the museum library, spend time in the reading room, read the contents of a directory, use the Information Center.