Past Exhibitions
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
- Top Art 2020 - Closed: Friday, 20 March 2020
- Rotorua High School Visual Arts Portfolio Showcase - Closed: Friday, 20 March 2020
2019
- 2019 Salon des Refusés - Closed: Sunday, 17 November 2019
- 2019 Rotorua Museum Art Awards Exhibition of Finalists - Closed: Sunday, 10 November 2019
- Brave Hearts - Closed: Thursday, 28 February 2019
2018
- Beyond Geyserland - Closed: Sunday, 18 November 2018
- The Dark Arts Exhibition 2018 - Closed: Tuesday, 11 September 2018
- Top Art 2018 - Closed: Saturday, 9 June 2018
- The Art of Remembering - Te Pū o Mahara - Closed: Saturday, 26 May 2018
- Muka Youth Prints - Closed: Sunday, 8 April 2018
- Autauhinera: Sisterhood - Closed: Friday, 23 February 2018
2017
- Salon des Refusés - Closed: Saturday, 7 October 2017
- 2017 Rotorua Museum Art Awards Exhibition of Finalists - Closed: Friday, 6 October 2017
- Muka youth prints - Closed: Sunday, 28 May 2017
- Top Art 2017 - Closed: Sunday, 14 May 2017
- Da Vinci Machines and Robots - Closed: Sunday, 26 March 2017
2016
- Tudor Towers - Closed: Monday, 21 November 2016
- Cool and Collected - Closed: Sunday, 20 November 2016
- Rembrandt Remastered - Closed: Sunday, 20 November 2016
- Inner Worlds: The Art and Life of Walter Bakkenes - Closed: Sunday, 27 November 2016
- Top Art 2016 - Closed: Friday, 17 June 2016
- Sunlight - Ihi Kōmaru - Closed: Sunday, 14 August 2016
- Balls, Bullets & Boots - Closed: Sunday, 29 May 2016
- Splutter and Waffle - Closed: Sunday, 1 May 2016
- Every Tea Towel Tells a Story - Closed: Sunday, 1 May 2016
- Kuia Mau Moko - Closed: Sunday, 17 January 2016
- AEIOU - Closed: Sunday, 1 May 2016
- Play Space - Closed: Tuesday, 16 February 2016
- Places+Faces, Art+History - Closed: Sunday, 21 February 2016
- On the Wing - urban release of the New Zealand falcon - Closed: Sunday, 29 May 2016
2015
- Night & Day: - Closed: Sunday, 11 October 2015
- Selling the Dream - Closed: Sunday, 11 October 2015
- 2015 Rotorua Museum Art Awards Exhibition - Closed: Sunday, 11 October 2015
- Top Art 2015 - Closed: Friday, 5 June 2015
- Corrugations - Closed: Sunday, 21 June 2015
- Whiria - Closed: Sunday, 7 June 2015
- Body in Action - Closed: Sunday, 15 March 2015
- Pick & Mix - Closed: Sunday, 10 May 2015
2014
- Wide Horizons - Closed: Sunday, 30 November 2014
- Jack Lang - Closed: Saturday, 20 December 2014
- David Trubridge: So Far - Closed: Sunday, 30 November 2014
- Dinosaur Footprints - Closed: Sunday, 12 October 2014
- Great War Stories - Closed: Sunday, 23 November 2014
- Top Art 2014 - Closed: Friday, 11 July 2014
- Phantom City - Closed: Sunday, 7 September 2014
- His Own Steam - Closed: Sunday, 24 August 2014
- Urban release of endangered NZ Falcons - Closed: Sunday, 20 July 2014
- Capture the Raptor Photo Competition Exhibition - Closed: Tuesday, 22 July 2014
- Safety in Numbers - Closed: Sunday, 24 August 2014
- Te Ara: Maori Pathways of Leadership - Closed: Sunday, 8 June 2014
- Mirror Mirror: Portraits from the Rotorua Museum Collection - Closed: Sunday, 8 June 2014
- A Continuous Line: The Art of Dennis K. Turner - Closed: Sunday, 8 June 2014
- Now & Then - Closed: Sunday, 11 May 2014
- The Age of Aquarius: A 1970s Revolution in Fashion - Closed: Sunday, 11 May 2014
- Second Glance: Photographs by the Rotorua Camera Club - Closed: Wednesday, 2 April 2014
- Sounds like Us - Closed: Sunday, 2 February 2014
- Be Amazed! A Labyrinth of Patterns - Closed: Sunday, 2 March 2014
- Matatoki – Contemporary Maori Carving - Closed: Sunday, 16 March 2014
- Carved Canvas - Closed: Sunday, 16 March 2014
- Down the Hall on a Saturday Night - Closed: Sunday, 16 March 2014
2013
- Rotorua Museum Art Awards Exhibition - Closed: Monday, 28 October 2013
- Surface Treatments: The Art of James Turkington - Closed: Sunday, 17 November 2013
- Canterbury Quakes - Closed: Sunday, 6 October 2013
- Aotearoa Quilts - Closed: Sunday, 4 August 2013
- KABLAM! Kereama Taepa - Closed: Sunday, 16 June 2013
- Flow Riders – Tracing Kowhaiwhai Traditions - Closed: Sunday, 8 September 2013
- Arcade - Homegrown Video Games - Closed: Sunday, 9 June 2013
- Top Art 2013 - Closed: Friday, 26 April 2013
- Gold Strike – Bob Kerr - Closed: Sunday, 30 June 2013
- Muka Youth Prints - Closed: Sunday, 24 March 2013
- Norm Heke OMGs: Maori Gods in the 21st Century - Closed: Sunday, 26 May 2013
- Cafe Art – Animals in Pastel by Maxine Thompson - Closed: Thursday, 11 April 2013
- The Lightness - Joanna Langford - Closed: Sunday, 14 April 2013
- Titokowaru’s Dilemma - Closed: Sunday, 7 April 2013
- Ask the Dust - Eddie Clemens - Closed: Sunday, 14 April 2013
- Other Stories - Joe Sheehan - Closed: Sunday, 7 April 2013
- Cafe Art - Eternal Blues by Fabiola Barba - Closed: Wednesday, 20 February 2013
- Collectors in the Community –Wendy Hurran’s Santa Bears - Closed: Friday, 4 January 2013
- Woollaston 101 - Closed: Sunday, 24 February 2013
- Off the Wall: World of WearableArt™ - Closed: Sunday, 10 February 2013
- A La Mode – Early 19th Century Fashion Plates - Closed: Thursday, 7 February 2013
2012
- Cafe Art - Corrugated Creations - Closed: Wednesday, 19 December 2012
- Ship in a Bottle collection by Chris Currie - Closed: Thursday, 22 November 2012
- The Object of the Portrait - Closed: Sunday, 25 November 2012
- Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011 - Closed: Wednesday, 31 October 2012
- Family Treasures 2012 - Nga Taonga Tuku Iho - Closed: Sunday, 4 November 2012
- Haunts of Dickens - Closed: Sunday, 9 September 2012
- The Eclectic Collection - Collector in the Community - Closed: Thursday, 4 October 2012
- Nga Whakatupuranga - Generations of Weaving - Closed: Sunday, 14 October 2012
- Edgewalkers – Contemporary Tapestry by Kay McGregor - Closed: Tuesday, 4 September 2012
- John Badcock - Stations of the Cross - Closed: Sunday, 22 July 2012
- Collectors in the Community - Belleek Display - Closed: Wednesday, 25 July 2012
- Photographs of Mokoia Island - Closed: Tuesday, 10 July 2012
- Top Art 2012 - Closed: Friday, 25 May 2012
- Bedazzled - Costumes & Drawings from NZ Ballet - Closed: Sunday, 5 August 2012
- The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy - Closed: Monday, 16 July 2012
- Nigel Brown - Travel to Travel - Closed: Sunday, 5 August 2012
- White Cloud Worlds: New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy Arts - Closed: Sunday, 29 July 2012
- Anne Frank - Closed: Sunday, 6 May 2012
- Collectors in the Community – Crown Lynn Vases - Closed: Wednesday, 23 May 2012
- Wayne Barrar an Expanding Subterra - Closed: Friday, 25 May 2012
- Muka Youth Prints - Closed: Sunday, 12 February 2012
- Who am I? - Closed: Sunday, 29 April 2012
- Ross Allen’s Royal Commemoratives - Closed: Wednesday, 7 March 2012
- Brian Brake - Lens on the world - Closed: Sunday, 22 April 2012
- Bohemians of the Brush - Closed: Monday, 6 February 2012
- A Catalogue of Wonders - Closed: Sunday, 19 February 2012
2011
- Rotorua Wearable Creationz– a selection from the 2011 awards - Closed: Sunday, 25 September 2011
- Blomfield in Wonderland - Closed: Sunday, 27 November 2011
- WOW Icons on Tour - Closed: Sunday, 30 October 2011
- Heather Straka – The Asian - Closed: Wednesday, 30 November 2011
- Bay Proud – A Century of Bay of Plenty Rugby - Closed: Sunday, 4 December 2011
- Neil Pardington – The Vault - Closed: Sunday, 4 December 2011
- Ans Westra – The Crescent Moon: The Face of Islam - Closed: Sunday, 14 August 2011
- Lynley Dodd: A Retrospective - Closed: Sunday, 31 July 2011
- Drawn from Italy: Mantegna to Kauffmann - Closed: Sunday, 10 July 2011
- Collectors in the Community – Rick Williams’ dinosaur fossils - Closed: Wednesday, 20 July 2011
- Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Winners - Closed: Sunday, 15 May 2011
- Body in Action - Closed: Sunday, 24 July 2011
- Top Art - Closed: Friday, 8 April 2011
- Collectors in the Community: Pat De Carteret - Hat Pins - Closed: Wednesday, 25 May 2011
- Drawing Conclusions - Closed: Sunday, 10 April 2011
- Images of Rotorua Project 2010 - Closed: Sunday, 27 March 2011
- Collectors in the Community: Dave Howe's horseshoe art - Closed: Thursday, 31 March 2011
- Cascades - Closed: Sunday, 20 February 2011
- Use and Beauty: Stan Jenkins' collection of New Zealand ceramics - Closed: Sunday, 6 February 2011
2010
- Blast! Pat Hanly – the painter and his protests - Closed: Sunday, 28 November 2010
- Collectors in the Community: Shari Cole - Pacificana - Closed: Wednesday, 10 November 2010
- Rotorua Wearable Creations ‘n Colour Awards 2010 - Closed: Sunday, 31 October 2010
- Collectors in the Community: John Danks – Radiojoy - Closed: Wednesday, 15 September 2010
- Top Art - Closed: Friday, 9 July 2010
- Tickle My Senses - Closed: Sunday, 19 September 2010
- Collectors in the Community : Ken Thomasen - Closed: Wednesday, 21 July 2010
- Sounds Amazing - Closed: Sunday, 8 August 2010
- Mai Te Whenua – Of the Land - Closed: Sunday, 20 June 2010
- Mirror Magic - Closed: Sunday, 16 May 2010
- Collectors in the Community – Norma Evans’ Souvenir Shoes - Closed: Wednesday, 28 April 2010
- Family Treasures - Closed: Sunday, 18 April 2010
- 1839 Exchanges - Jewellery by Jason Hall - Closed: Sunday, 21 February 2010
- Mirek Smisek – 60 years 60 pots - Closed: Monday, 1 February 2010
- Geyserland Glitz & Glamour on the World’s Catwalk - Closed: Sunday, 21 February 2010
- Collectors in the Community: Ken Thomasen - Padlocks, Keys and Tools - Closed: Wednesday, 24 February 2010
- A Blokes Show - Closed: Sunday, 21 February 2010
2009
- Collectors in the Community: Ken Thomasen - Whisky Water Jugs - Closed: Wednesday, 25 November 2009
- Arthur James Iles – A Commercial Enterprise! - Closed: Sunday, 13 December 2009
- Mar Pacifico! - Closed: Sunday, 6 December 2009
- Collectors in the Community – Norma Evans’ Cinderella shoes - Closed: Wednesday, 14 October 2009
- War in Paradise – the unofficial story of New Zealand soldiers in New Caledonia 1942-1944 - Closed: Sunday, 29 November 2009
- Patrick Reynolds – Elvis in Geyserland - Closed: Sunday, 8 November 2009
- Serena Stevenson - Face Value - Closed: Sunday, 4 October 2009
- Collectors in the Community – Souvenir Ware - Closed: Wednesday, 26 August 2009
- CREATURES in art - Closed: Sunday, 13 September 2009
- Treaty 2 U - Closed: Thursday, 20 August 2009
- Exiles - Rudolf Boelee - Closed: Sunday, 2 August 2009
Featured Education Programme
Pioneer Days Education ProgrammeRotorua Settlers and Steam Museum
Always on
Venue: Rotorua Settlers and Steam Museum, Robinson Ave, Holdens Bay, Rotorua
Curriculum Links: Social Sciences, English, Technology and Science
Suitable for: Year 1-10 Students
Duration: 2 hours
