Best sights in Napier
A planning-minded collection of Napier's strongest architecture, culture, historic places, parks, markets, and waterfront anchors — selected from the city's existing Sortie inventory.
Start with the headline architecture, then add one museum, historic area, or outdoor block to give each day a different rhythm.
30 places worth building into a Napier itinerary · Architecture · Museums · Parks · Historic sights
1897 Flood Heroism Memorial
The 1897 Flood Heroism Memorial is a commemorative landmark in Napier associated by name with acts of heroism during the 1897 flood. Established in 1900, it offers visitors a tangible point of connection with the city’s history of remembrance.
A Wave in Time
A Wave in Time is a sculpture in Napier dating from February 2010. Visitors encounter it as a work of public art whose title and wave motif connect a contemporary sculptural presence with the character of its coastal city setting.
Anderson Park
Anderson Park is a public green space in Napier. It gives visitors an alternative to the city’s buildings and monuments, providing a park environment suited to experiencing Napier’s open-air, recreational side.
Clive Square
Clive Square is a civic square in Napier whose establishment dates to 1854. Its long history makes it a durable element of the city’s urban landscape, where visitors can encounter public space with roots in Napier’s nineteenth-century development.
Customhouse, Napier
Customhouse, Napier is a historic building in the city. For visitors interested in the built heritage of Napier, it provides a surviving architectural point of reference connected through its name to the civic function of a customhouse.
Daily Telegraph Building
The Daily Telegraph Building is a former newspaper building in Napier, completed in 1933. Visitors encounter a historic place associated with the city’s press history and with the architecture of Napier’s early-1930s built environment.
Faraday Museum of Technology
The Faraday Museum of Technology is a technology museum in Napier founded in 1979. It offers visitors a museum setting centered on technology, adding a science-and-industry perspective to the city’s cultural attractions.
Heipipi
Heipipi is a pā in Napier, representing a Māori fortified settlement site. Visitors encounter a place of cultural and historical significance that reflects the Māori presence in the landscape beyond the city’s later-built landmarks.
Heritage Fountain (Nga Puna Wai Whakapapa)
Heritage Fountain (Nga Puna Wai Whakapapa) is a sculptural fountain in Napier created in 1996. Combining sculpture with a water feature, it gives visitors a work of public art whose bilingual name contributes to its cultural character.
HMNZS Tui anchor
The HMNZS Tui anchor is a publicly displayed maritime object along Marine Parade in Napier. Visitors can view an actual anchor associated by name with HMNZS Tui, adding a naval and maritime point of interest to the city’s public landscape.
Ivy
Ivy is a 2018 sculpture by Tony Cragg in Napier. It presents visitors with a contemporary work by a named sculptor, contributing a modern artistic element to the city’s collection of public landmarks and cultural sights.
Millennial Arch
The Millennial Arch is a sculptural arch in Napier dating from 2000. Its form combines the qualities of public sculpture and an architectural gateway, giving visitors a landmark explicitly associated with the turn of the millennium.
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