Dutch migration to New Zealand dates back to the earliest period of European colonisation.

[2] The Netherlands' embassy in Wellington estimated there were approximately 45,000 Dutch citizens residing in New Zealand.

[4] In the 1950s, the Dutch immigrants Rolf Feijen and Hans Romaine formed the Restaurant Association of New Zealand.

Lobbying by the association made restaurants such as Otto Groen's Otto Groen and the Dutch Kiwi, a restaurant located in Waiatarua, in the Waitākere Ranges of Auckland, become the first in New Zealand that was allowed to serve wine with meals.

The Oranjehof Dutch Connection Centre is part of the Te Awahou Riverside Cultural Park, which also includes the flour-grinding windmill De Molen - a Stellingmolen, built to a 17th-century design.