Volcanic Activity Centre


This interactive science museum inside the i-SITE is a little text-heavy but turns theory to reality with an earthquake simulator, a live seismograph computer and footage of the 1995–96 Ruapehu eruptions.

Buy tickets from the i-SITE desk.


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