The exhibition includes banknotes and coins from the Reserve Bank's circulating currency collection featuring portraits of the Queen, as well as commemorative coins to mark various royal tours and events.
These are displayed alongside images and objects relating to the Queen's Coronation in 1952 and her tour of New Zealand in 1953-54, on loan from Archives New Zealand.
A film featuring events from the Queen's first visit to New Zealand in 1953-54, also courtesy of Archives New Zealand, is showing in the theatrette section of the museum.




