The Kauri Museum
Real New Zealand Heritage
En-route to the lodge from Auckland, or vice versa, we highly recommend guests visit The Kauri Museum on SH12 at Matakohe.
The Kauri Museum celebrates one of the world’s greatest trees and honours our relationship with it. As the largest under-cover visitor attraction north of Auckland, the Kauri Museum has 4,500sqm of exhibition halls, galleries and rooms of treasure.
The museum is steeped in history and a minimum of 1.5 hours should be allowed to fully be able to take in the majority of exhibits and there is also a nice cafe onsite for lunch, coffee or tea.
The museum is open from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm daily
(closed Christmas day).
For more information visit The Kauri Museum website:
https://www.kaurimuseum.com/visit
The Dargaville Museum
Something to interest everyone
Continue on your journey to Waipoua Lodge along State Highway 12 and you will reach the small town of Dargaville. Here you will find the delightful Dargaville Museum situated in Harding Park with its bush walks and historic Po-Tu-O-Te Rangi pa site providing a lovely area to picnic.
This local museum is full of memorabilia reflecting the lives of early settlers and also has the largest pre-European Maori canoe on exhibition in New Zealand. With the dangerous waters of the west coast only a stones throw away, the museum is also home to relics from the French warship L’Alcmene which was shipwrecked off the coast in 1851. The museum also houses a working model railway and village.
The Museum is open 9.00 am to 4.00 pm daily
(closed Christmas day).
For more information visit The Dargaville Museum website:
