On to Rotorua, but before we went to the more traditional tourist events in the area, we went to the Rotorua Museum of Art and History.
The Maori artifacts are plentiful in the Museum and include the bargeboards from Rotoiti's Houmaitawhiti meeting house and a female pumice figure, Pani, a kumara goddess depicted in the act of child birth.
The building was originally opened in 1908 as the Great Spa of the South Pacific. Some of the sculptures that dotted the building are still in evidence, though some are damaged from when the building became a night club!!!!!
They have restored and displayed some of the Spa Rooms. The taking of the cure has had its effect on the building materials. The minerals etc just dissolve some materials and the pipe work was hugely corroded.
You could climb all the way to the top of the building...viewing the materials and the type of building method used to create this lovely old building...the view was not bad either.
Can you imagine this main foyer as a dance floor.....thank goodness they have brought it back to some were close to the original.
On to Rotorua, but before we went to the more traditional tourist events in the area, we went to the Rotorua Museum of Art and History.
The Maori artifacts are plentiful in the Museum and include the bargeboards from Rotoiti's Houmaitawhiti meeting house and a female pumice figure, Pani, a kumara goddess depicted in the act of child birth.
The building was originally opened in 1908 as the Great Spa of the South Pacific. Some of the sculptures that dotted the building are still in evidence, though some are damaged from when the building became a night club!!!!!
They have restored and displayed some of the Spa Rooms. The taking of the cure has had its effect on the building materials. The minerals etc just dissolve some materials and the pipe work was hugely corroded.
You could climb all the way to the top of the building...viewing the materials and the type of building method used to create this lovely old building...the view was not bad either.
Can you imagine this main foyer as a dance floor.....thank goodness they have brought it back to some were close to the original.
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