Tākina
convention and exhibition facility in Wellington
Tākina is a convention centre in Wellington, New Zealand. The name means "to invoke, to summon, to connect, or to bring forth" in the Māori language. The building's main entrance is on Cable Street opposite Te Papa, the Museum of New Zealand, and there is another public entrance on Wakefield Street. Tākina is owned by Wellington City Council.
Background
Proposals for a new convention centre in Wellington go back at least to the 1990s. In 1998, then-Mayor Mark Blumsky was interested in turning the failing Queens Wharf retail centre into a convention centre. At that time conventions were being held at Te Papa, the Town Hall and Michael Fowler Centre (known together as the Wellington Convention Centre), Victoria University and at hotels. The chief executive of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce didn't think a large venue was needed and asked if conventions should be a core business for the city council.
By 2002, Wellington was second to Auckland as the most popular convention destination in New Zealand. Tourism organisation Totally Wellington supported a new convention centre, saying Wellington needed more high-quality tourism facilities.
“Tākina” enters the record as convention and exhibition facility in Wellington. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tākina, convention and exhibition can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q108189354. Authority coordinates are -41.291, 174.781. None of the 3 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1998 and 2002.
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