Steampunk HQ, Heritage museum in Oamaru, New Zealand.

Steampunk HQ is an art collaboration and gallery in the Victorian precinct of Oamaru, housed in the former Meeks Grain Elevator Building, a Category I historic structure. Its exterior walls are decorated with metal giant flies, and a coin-operated modified NZR DS class diesel locomotive stands outside. Inside, two large darkened rooms and part of the basement display contraptions of copper, gears and pipes, skeletal sculptures, a steam tractor and a boat with a grim reaper.

Steampunk HQ occupies the former Meeks Grain Elevator Building, a free-standing stone structure registered by Heritage New Zealand as a Category I historic place. The art collaboration and gallery opened there in November 2011, and in 2012 it was rated one of New Zealand's best new tourist attractions.

The name plays on the building's past: the former Meeks Grain Elevator, a Category I heritage structure. Each June over Queen's Birthday Weekend the Steampunk NZ Festival brings three days of events, including a fashion show and a ball. Next door in the Woolstore, the Libratory gallery displays and sells steampunk artwork and sculptures.

The gallery occupies the former Meeks Grain Elevator Building, with two large darkened rooms and part of the basement holding the exhibits; a back door leads to an outdoor yard of machines still being converted. The coin-operated steam engine stands outside the stone building, and the Libratory gallery is next door in the Woolstore. The Steampunk NZ Festival runs over Queen's Birthday Weekend in early June.

The locomotive outside is a modified NZR DS class diesel engine: it lights up, plays engine and whistle sounds, and breathes fire from its chimney when visitors insert a coin. The exterior walls carry giant flies built from scrap metal and industrial parts.