Things to See and Do
- Cinema Experience
- The Viewing Platform
- Taking the Cure Gallery
- Tudor Towers
- Te Arawa Gallery
- Tarawera Gallery
- Maori Battalion Gallery
- For The Kids
- Guided Tours
- Package Tours
- The Bath House Building
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The Story of Rotorua’s Bath House
Visit a place where patients were encouraged to bathe in electrifying currents!
In the early part of this century it wasn’t the All Blacks or the kiwi that New Zealand was famous for. It was Rotorua’s Bath House – the New Zealand government’s first investment in the fledgling tourism industry.
A building with a fascinating and sometimes bizarre past, the Bath House is New Zealand’s most photographed building and an architectural icon in itself.
The Taking the Cure exhibition recaptures the heyday of the “Great South Seas Spa” as our building was once known. Discover why people (including a surprising range of celebrities) came from all over the world to investigate the curative powers of the treatments administered right here in Rotorua’s Bath House.