The Lost Gypsy Gallery — Attraction in South Island

I stopped here for a quick takeaway coffee and ended up spending 2 hours exploring the gallery...

If you drive past, you absolutely have to go and check this out. Pay the $8 and go upstairs, this place is an explosion of creative genius.

It's not really a gallery, feels more like an old-fashioned 'museum of curiosities' or 'Imaginarium.' Super interactive, totally unique and so many levels of detail. Would be awesome for kids maybe 6+ (lots of the stuff is fragile so would need to keep an eye on young kids).

I have never seen anything like it and not sure I ever will again!

Coffee was...

The most intriguing place I’ve ever been to in nz - very clever engineered tinkerings with a sense of humour too. If you’re a curious person this place will absolutely delight you 😃 We spent an hour or so in the gallery bus alone pressing every button and winding every handle just to see what happens 😂 I had so much fun here it’s awesome. You can also pay $8 to go into the theatre where the ‘good stuff’ is - and that’s 100% true, the stuff inside the theatre is WAY better than what you see in the bus! I’m not going to spoil it here but I promise you, you are not going...

This is a must stop in my opinion, firstly buy a lovely cup of coffee and something nice to eat and have a very careful look around the seating entrance area, everywhere you look you see something different. Then don't rush, go into the bus and touch, push and turn and again carefully observe it's all very ingenious. Then pay the 8 dollars to go through the gate and again look, touch, press, listen etc. the enginuity of the owner is just incredible, take the time, easily an hour or two, it is so well done, the man is a genius...