The museum
The museum combines natural history, the cultural history of Aotearoa and a national remembrance mission. Two wartime fighters anchor separate Second World War aviation galleries.
Auckland War Memorial Museum preserves a wartime Mitsubishi Zero and a late-series Spitfire displayed in dedicated galleries amid New Zealand military-history collections.. The museum combines natural history, the cultural history of Aotearoa and a national remembrance mission. Two wartime fighters anchor separate Second World War aviation galleries.
Visitors can see the Zero from raised viewing areas and compare it with the Spitfire in another gallery. Those aircraft occupy distinct spaces within a much larger museum. The aircraft listed here are selected holdings supported by the linked institutional sources, not a complete inventory; where a source documents collection ownership without specifying the current gallery location, the display status is deliberately left unknown.
What defines the collection
A wartime Mitsubishi Zero and a late-series Spitfire displayed in dedicated galleries amid New Zealand military-history collections.
What to expect
Visitors can see the Zero from raised viewing areas and compare it with the Spitfire in another gallery. Those aircraft occupy distinct spaces within a much larger museum.
What the museum holds
2 documented aircraft and exhibit records
The inventory below separates what the museum or its sources say the institution holds from the smaller set of aircraft histories already connected to the Air Archive.
- Mitsubishi A6M ZeroOn Display
- Supermarine SpitfireOn Display
Open full museum-listed inventory (2 entries)
| Aircraft | Status | Identity |
|---|---|---|
| Mitsubishi A6M Zero Mitsubishi A6M Zero | On Display | — |
| Supermarine Spitfire Supermarine Spitfire (late-production example) | On Display | — |
Aircraft histories connected to this museum
These links connect museum holdings to aircraft histories already in the Trackpads Air Archive. They are not intended to imply that every museum aircraft has a dedicated archive profile yet.