Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery — Attraction in Vincent Community

It is a lovely free museum to visit. Highly recommend!

Alexandra is famous for the gold discovered nearby during the last century.

Now it is significant with horticulture and the stone-fruit industry, which is celebrated by a blossom festival in the town each spring.

The first orchards planted provided fruit for the mining community.

Now, nectarines, apricots, cherries, peaches, plums and apples are grown and sold for both New Zealand and export markets. Seasonal work picking fruit is available during the summer and many tourists and Pacific Islanders come to New Zealand to work in Alexandra.

It is apparent, that there is more bustling economic activity here in Alexandra, with more cafes and restaurants than the nearby towns of Cromwell and...

Not huge but quite a cool space. I liked that it has several art stations to make it fun for the children. There seem to be a mini amazing race on space going on.. its nice to see the kids running about the museum, finding answers.

The museum, is mostly about the godrush that happened in the area. The history, the equipments and what happened after. I enjoyed the titbits on the rabbits-problem NZ had faced and how they supported WW1 through canning...

It was just a whim to go in here and we thought we would be five minutes. We were quite a bit longer. What a little treasure. This is a fantastic museum. Art gallery as you go in with lovely local art work and then the museum in the back. It has displays on all the different aspects of the area history - the gold mining, the building of the dam, NIWA.... Cost is by donation,. Definitely worth a visit. ...