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Experience daily life as a student at one of Aotearoa New Zealand's largest and best preserved historic school of mines.

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Tours

Thames School of Mines is an immersive tour experience.

School of Mines

Immerse yourself in student life with period equipment and classic gold rush machinery.
Witness a functioning model stamper battery.
Explore the mineralogical museum, including one of the largest mineral collections in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Visitor Arrival
705 Queen Street
Thames 3500

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Wednesday - Sunday

10:00am - 4:00pm

Public Holidays

Closed Christmas Day and Good Friday

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Member Free

Adult Guided Tour $10.00

Under 18 years Free

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Thames School of Mines comprises several one-storey buildings. Chairs are available throughout the site for visitors with mobility issues.

School Buildings

The school buildings are one-storey buildings with steps up to the entry. Unfortunately, there is no wheelchair access to the school buildings.

Mineralogical Museum

The mineralogical museum is a one-storey building with steps up to the entry. The museum has wheelchair access through the rear entrance.

The Museum Shop

The Museum Shop is a one-storey building and is completely wheelchair accessible. There is a small ramp on the inside of the shop for entry.

Grounds

Our site is small, with little distance between buildings, making it easily walkable for those who have difficulty navigating distances.

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Phone +64 7 868 6227
Email tsm@heritage.org.nz

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To step into Thames School of Mines is to get a vivid sense of how practical science and technology was taught in our pioneering past.

You’ll see authentic period equipment and classic gold rush machinery, classrooms, labs, microscopes and maps of the gold fields, a model of a whole stamper battery system and an actual small-scale stamper battery, mining documents and historic photos.

The original furnace room, where gold was laboriously extracted and then assayed, is well worth a look. So, too, is the minerological museum, a geologist’s paradise that houses one of the largest collections in the southern hemisphere.

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