What an amazing place. A must do if you’re in the Kaiwaka – Dargaville area and well worth seeing.

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Those with self contained vans can stay the night there too and there is also the Matakohe Holiday park a short walk away.

The museum is a fantastic collection of all things kauri and has a full Sawmill Hall full of all the things that were used to prepare and process kauri.  There is even a model of bean Rock lighthouse made of Kauri Gum.

An early caterpillar Bulldozer

The Sawmill Hall – amazing

The last Logan kauri yacht

There was also a barrel making display and its amazing how so many other businesses benefitted from the Kauri Industry.

The washing machine section

Extracting gum

Pit sawing

Bean Rock Lighthouse made of Gum

Tudor Collins donated his massive negative library to the museum

Free overnighting outside for CSC vehicles

Local Photographer and famous for his collections of historic images, Tudor Collins donated his huge negative library to the museum when he found it was being set up. There are some fabulous images on display.

Allow at least a morning to do it properly but you could easily spend a day there.