- When
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Wednesday 20 December 2017, 9.30am - Saturday 30 June 2018, 5.30pm
- Opening hours: 9.30am-5.30pm daily (except Christmas Day)
- Where
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Auckland Zoo, 99 Motions Road, Western Springs, Auckland
- Cost
Purchase Bug Lab exhibition only tickets or upgrade to a Bug Lab exhibition + Auckland Zoo entry combo ticket:
- Bug Lab exhibition:
- Adult $18.50
- Child (14 & under) $13
- Senior/Student (with ID) $16.50
- Family Pass 1 (1A+2C) $36
- Family Pass 2 (2A+2C) $50
- Infant (under 4yo) free
- Bug Lab exhibition + Auckland Zoo entry:
- Adult $35.50
- Child (14 & under) $17.50,
- Senior/Student (with ID) $28.50
- Family Pass 1 (1A+2C) $65
- Family Pass 2 (2A+2C) $95
- Infant (under 4yo) free
- Bug Lab exhibition:
- Bookings
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This exhibition will have session times available – pre-book online prior to your visit
- Contact
- Website
The blockbuster science exhibition Bug Lab opens at Auckland Zoo on Wednesday 20 December for a season – its first showing in Auckland, and its last before it tours overseas!
Bug Lab has been developed by New Zealand’s world-famous museum Te Papa, with the Academy Award-winning Weta Worskhop.
Featuring giant-scale bug models within four magical chambers, it's a spectacularly immersive and interactive experience, offering visitors a unique opportunity to learn from the genius of bugs.
Enter the ‘operating theatre’ of the iridescent jewel wasp and witness her turn a cockroach into a zombie – to feed the kids of course.
Help the Japanese honeybees defeat the giant hornet, their greatest enemy. Test yourself against the bugs with games of skill – can you beat the orchid mantis’ lightning-fast reflexes?
The zoo is housing Bug Lab in a special new multi-purpose exhibition space. As well as experiencing Bug Lab, during its time here, visitors to the zoo can look forward to some up-close and personal daily keeper encounters with some very beautiful live bugs – including some of Aotearoa’s own unique invertebrates.
Auckland Zoo will also be hosting Bug Lates (R18) and Zoo Lates (all ages), a chance to visit this exhibition outside of our standard hours.
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