Rotorua Settlers and Steam Museum- Te Amorangi New Zealand

Rotorua Settlers and Steam Museum- Te Amorangi New Zealand Come and explore some of our district’s history! Interactive, educational and suitable for the whole family! Opening Hours: Thursdays and Sundays, 10am - 4pm.

Live "Steam Day" the 2nd Sunday of each month.

18/06/2026

This motor is a hand crank COVENTRY CLIMAX.
4 cylinder, out of an ex-army generator.
After a rebuild and some TLC it runs quite nicely

11/06/2026

On Sunday morning,
(June 14th)
When the kids won't get out from under your feet because its "to cold".🥶
Bring them down to the museum for our monthly steam day.
It will be about 120 degrees🥵, that should keep them warm 😁

Adults $10
Under 15 are free.
Open 10 -3

Today we had Rotorua Cub Scouts come for a visit. They learnt about hand washing clothes, Morse code, butter making and ...
07/06/2026

Today we had Rotorua Cub Scouts come for a visit.
They learnt about hand washing clothes, Morse code, butter making and blacksmithing steel.
Energetic bunch of kids and fun to have around.

Sometimes when you look around the museum you see garden art, but every piece of garden art tells a story. This log jink...
30/05/2026

Sometimes when you look around the museum you see garden art, but every piece of garden art tells a story.
This log jinker came from Lagoon Rd between Rotorua and Tauranga.
It was used to haul logs out by Bullock train.
The black and white photo is this log jinker and bullock team in front of Queen's Drive, Government Gardens, Rotorua

Very exciting day at the museum today. Tally-ho came with their hi-ab to lift the stairs into place. Joe Tettenburg has ...
21/05/2026

Very exciting day at the museum today.
Tally-ho came with their hi-ab to lift the stairs into place.
Joe Tettenburg has spent a few days putting together.
Bit of a mile stone ticked of in the progress of our green building.

Tomorrow, Sunday 10th of May is our monthly steam day.We fire up the boiler, get some steam pressure happening, and get ...
08/05/2026

Tomorrow, Sunday 10th of May is our monthly steam day.
We fire up the boiler, get some steam pressure happening, and get our steam powered gear moving.
Come down and feel the heat.

Today a group from the museum went over to Tauranga museum to look at their collection, Primarily to learn about clean s...
30/04/2026

Today a group from the museum went over to Tauranga museum to look at their collection,
Primarily to learn about clean storage, preservation, research and signage that tells a story.
But,
Highlight of the trip was finding this cart made by Cooper and Curd.
Cooper was the grandfather of Kevin Cooper (pictured) the current chair of our museum

Its always a good day at the museum when you have an army of mini hi-viz running around.
26/04/2026

Its always a good day at the museum when you have an army of mini hi-viz running around.

10/04/2026

As we prepare for a bit of soggy weather, the warmest and possibly driest place to be on Sunday might be next to our boiler for our monthly steam day.
Gates open at 10am
Adults $10
Under 15 free

Its all go at the museum this week. Amalgamated roofing is here replacing the roof on the workshop and blacksmiths and i...
01/04/2026

Its all go at the museum this week.
Amalgamated roofing is here replacing the roof on the workshop and blacksmiths and installing the chimney on the 2nd forge.
The volunteers are really happy to see this happening.

Address

43 Robinson Avenue
Rotorua
3010

Opening Hours

Thursday 10am - 4pm
Sunday 10am - 4pm

Telephone

+6473459525

Website

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