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Photo by Alison Coombridge

Room 17 Tour of the Steampunk Headquarters historic building in Oamaru is not for the faint hearted.

Alison Coombridge —

Steampunk is a science fiction genre that features steam powered technology.  It grew from the Victorian perspective of the future added with a bit of punk fun.  Its up to you to judge for yourself.

Familiar machines subtly reshaped with innovations beyond their time and strange beings taking control.  Giant flies, wetas, unusual birds and oversized crabs and ferocious fish, walks you back in history and on into the future.  Stepping through the portal door with trepidation was mind blowing as you took a leap into the matrix.  The endless light bulbs, reflecting mirrors with changing depth of field portrayed an ever changing galaxy.