Rotorua Settlers and Steam Museum — Attraction in North Island

This is a real gem of a find in Rotorua. It is off the main road between Rotorua and Rotoiti - you turn at McDonalds in Owhata! It's reminds me of some of the special muses in the UK that show real life as was. It's not just steam engines and a model railway. I took my boys who lived buty girl was jealous when she saw pics of all the other attractions: other little houses with antiques and collections of hats dolls, cameras, books everything that people used 100+ years ago. Even the Rotorua old jail which housed 2 inmates only. Just a really...

Ka mau te wehi!!! An awesome place to relax and look at all the history of Aotearoa - New Zealand from the first Māori to the Pākehā settlers, along with stationary steam engines and an awesome little ride on diesel railway. Check out their Facebook pages for...

Really enjoyed our trip to this fabulous hands on museum. Such a huge variety, from boilers and steam engines to morse code machines, agitators, butter churner, stocks, through to Maori artifacts. Highly...