MUSEUM HOTEL DE WHEELS

The Museum Hotel de Wheels, an unusual name, but most appropriate for a hotel that made a 120-metre journey down an inner city street on railway tracks. The Museum Hotel was the largest building ever relocated in New Zealand and one of very few in the world. An ingenious method of transferring the building onto a "railway carriage", then rolling it to a new site, provided a means of saving it from demolition. The newly expanded hotel is now sited in the hub of Wellington's expansive Lambton Harbour development.