The larger exhibition space allows more artifacts from the museum's many collections to be displayed and will allow more of New Zealand's naval stories to be told. The museum at Torpedo Bay is now open. It will retain it's free entry status and seven day a week operation. In addition it will increase it's daily opening time to 5.00 pm each day.
The largest artifacts on the site are the buildings themselves. The buildings are the original 19th century mining base built as part of Auckland's defence system in the late 1800s.