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Take a guided walking tour ($33–35:50, 1½–2½ hr) or buy a booklet at the Information Centre and give yourself a self-guided tour. Even a few blocks will take you past many of the most significant buildings that exemplify the style. One-hour tours in vintage cars available from $270 for up to 4 people.
Technology museum housed in a former powerhouse. Exhibits range from household appliances through commercial equipment to the massive engine that was used to generate electricity.
formerly MTG Hawke's Bay
Permanent exhibition on the 1931 quake with changing art and social history displays.
Has a reef tank, a travelator that spirals its way beneath the enormous Oceanarium, creating the impression of a true underwater experience, and a typical New Zealand rocky shore environment. There are sharks, stingray and hundreds of fish species, many of them representative of the catches from along the East Coast. There are eels, sea horse, turtles, octopus, tropical marine fish, kiwi, tuatara, water dragons, frogs and penguins on display. There is also an exhibition about the Hikurangi plate boundary and associated hazards like earthquakes and tsunami.
One of the most photographed landmarks in New Zealand, Pania is a figure of Māori mythology, and a symbol of Napier. She is beside the Tom Parker Fountain, which has a coloured lightshow until midnight.
An Art Deco outdoor stage, built in 1935 with a shell-like roof.
Art Deco Anglican cathedral consecrated in 1960. The original cathedral was destroyed in the 1931 earthquake with the loss of two lives.