Hokitika Museum — Attraction in South Island

We visited the Museum on the 19th of March 2019. Another great Carnegie building with so much history just on its own. It was great to learn more of the history of the local area and to discover new and interesting facts concerning Hokitika and the surrounding area. This town definitely punches above its weight for interesting places to visit and things to do. Not at all what we were expecting. The museum is definitely worth spending...

If your in the area and have time to learn about the history of Hokitika. This is a must stop and look place. I really enjoyed the museum with it's local secretes and history wonderfully laid out to view from the beginning of it's port days and gold rush era as the largest port on the West Coast up until the modern history of it's (now) more famous annual Wild Food Festival. Swing by and...

Really neat nuggets of local history clearly lovingly compiled and presented. I especially liked the parts on early aviation and its affect on the West Coasters, the gold rush, and photographs of the perilous development of overland Southern Alps traversal. Also fun fact the building was originally granted by the same oil baron Carnegie that funded so many museums and libraries...