Lakes District Museum & Gallery
Gold-rush-era bank turned museum of Māori, miners and settler life, with over thirty thousand objects.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Lakes District Museum in Arrowtown, near Queenstown, starts with one small iron object and the bargain behind it. It follows Nathanael Chalmers and his guide Reko, a chief from Tūtūrau, into the interior of the South Island in eighteen fifty-three, then the gold rush that reached the Arrow River a few years later. Listen inside the old bank chamber, where the gold of the goldfields once passed across the counter.
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