Top Things to do in Hawke's Bay Region
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Top 5 History Museums in Hawke's Bay Region, North Island
Discover the best top things to do in Hawke's Bay Region, New Zealand including Faraday Centre museum, Iron Museum Porangahau, Ongaonga Museum, Napier Library and Museum, Wairoa Museum.
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1. Faraday Centre museum
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 148 reviews
Fuel your imagination as you walk around Hawkes Bay’s largest Hand’s-on Interactive Museum. It’s a fascinating, family-friendly place, a place where children of all ages can have fun while learning. You can immerse yourself in an Aladdin’s Cave of technology, science and history. Explore our large collection of vintage machines, gadgets, or simply take a trip down memory lane while playing in the arcade, or phoning a friend the old fashioned way.
Reviewed By 318sallyf
If you have a place in your heart for nostalgia, you will love this museum. From pedal cars to Horse drawn Hearse, or 1950s School Dental Clinic, you will find plenty to take you back to the "good old days"!
2. Iron Museum Porangahau
3. Ongaonga Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 6 reviews
Ongaonga Museum is home to multiple historical buildings and artefacts from around Hawkes Bay and New Zealand.
Reviewed By 290grantn - Hastings, New Zealand
On our way to another attraction we decided to visit the Museum as one of our party used to live there as a child. Several old buildings restored and holding a lot of artifacts from settler days. Very interesting but especially interesting were the documents, photos etc. which gave a great picture of the early days of the settlement - there's a wealth of information about the people, the district, the landscape and farms. For those interested in history this is definitely worth a visit - we loved it. I was unable to put in the opening hours in the attraction details - it's open on Sundays from 1pm to 4pm or by arrangement outside that time. It's off the main routes but if going in the general area worth a stop to check it out - we'll be back to see if we can help store the documents, photos etc. on the Hawkes Bay Knowledge Bank archives as the information is priceless
4. Napier Library and Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 20 reviews
Reviewed By X8274IGderekc
Our self drive itinerary had us in Napier for the start of the famed Art Deco Festival, when the entire town seems to kick up its collective heels and celebrate, as if defying the dramatic history of the 1931 earthquake that devastated it. The short documentary film shown in the museum highlights the sudden ferocity of the quake as well as the equally fierce determination of the survivors to rebuild. That so much rebuilding was undertaken in so short a time explains the uniformity of architecture in the town centre, and the pride that local folk take in preserving and showcasing it on the February anniversary each year. Our walking tour guide, Murray, showed great knowledge of the various architectural nuances in a thorough but unhurried 90 minute walk. Re
5. Wairoa Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 16 reviews
