“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe justification of the indispensability of a library in human life as expressed in the above quote would be clear if you step into National Library, Wellington at least once, during your trip to New Zealand. If knowledge is the thing which can be considered everything you need, then this is the right place to make a visit. National Library, Wellington is one of the must see sots in New Zealand. The address of the National Library, Wellington is Box 1467, Wellington, New Zealand. Just beside other government buildings of Wellington, the National Library is located. This library was opened in the year 1987. Here the nub of the national collection was formed by the Alexander Turnbull Library which was previously kept in Turnbull's old house in Bowen Street. Bowen Street is positioned near the Beehive. The library now has over 250,000 volumes, including an exceptionally precious and nearly complete collection of accounts of travel and discovery in the south Pacific. There is a wall painting by the Maori artist Cliff Whiting in the Reading Room of this library. The mural depicts the separation of Mother Earth and Father Sky. There are persons who just want to enjoy the present of a place and therefore, spend time in sightseeing and being mesmerized by the tourist attractions of which they had previously heard. However, there are some travelers too, who would like to peep into the history as well as the socio-political development of a place. And for that reason you need some historical accounts and records which are, needless to say, interesting in their own way. National Library, Wellington supplies that sort of knowledge for those tourists from all over the globe.
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