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Kaiparoro Historic House Museum

Te rohe - Location
New Pacific Studio State Highway 2 Masterton 5921

Ngā haora mahi - Opening hours
January- April Fridays- Sundays 2-4 pm and by special agreement.

Te utu - Admission
$10 adults, includes afternoon tea. Children under 16 free.

This historic house, built in 1911, and now functioning as an international artist residency, offers house tours in summers. Original woodwork throughout and beautiful brass doorhandles and doorplates. A built-in steel safe in hallway and steep stairs to an 11 ft high loft workshop, along with working vice and unique dormer window, evoke the world of clockmaker Christopher Burton, who lived here from 1911 into the 1940s. All external and internal walls are solid concrete. Part of one wall is exposed to reveal vertical rebars and horizontal fencing wire inside hand-poured concrete. Story boards present three stories: Kaiparoro Stories, Past and Present;The Making of the Anzac Memorial Bridge,( which is across the road); Danish and Norwegian Connections. The museum also offers an interactive recording of life stories in the Little Hand Museum.

Ngā momo kohinga -
Collection Strengths

Art

Social history

Ngā wāhi -
Facilities

  • Parking

  • Other facilities

    Ample parking in driveway. Take care in entering. If approaching from south, it is safest to pass the house and make a U-turn in Kaiparoro Road. 3 wc. Working 3-4 day retreats for focus on creative pursuits are also open to all. See website http://www.newpacificstudio.org (under Retreat)

Whakapā mai -
Contact

Kei te mahere -
On the map