Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery
Contemporary galleries inside a former nineteen-thirty hotel that once housed a school for the deaf.
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This guide to Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery traces the building's earlier lives: a grand 1930 hotel undone by prohibition laws that let it serve tea but never a drink, then a boarding school for deaf children from 1942, and later the country's first residential centre for training teachers. You'll hear how each identity gave way to the next, and how locals nicknamed the failed hotel the pub with no beer. See if you can find where the original 1930s facade meets the newer gallery wing.
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