Discover the unique stories about the people who have shaped the Nelson region we live in today. The 31 displays and buildings in Founders Heritage Park are a growing legacy of history for all to enjoy. Our facilities are also very popular as venues for weddings,...

The Brunner Mine was a coal mine on the West Coast of the South Island in New Zealand. The Brunner Mine was one of several mines situated on the banks of the Grey River, at an area known as "Coal Gorge" between the townships of Stillwater and Taylorville.

A museum featuring curios dating back to the Victorian-Edwardian eras and up to the 1940s. It consists of three buildings; Captain Cook Pioneer Cottage (Marton is named after Cook's birthplace in Yorkshire); a General Store - a former police cell block, with items of...

Set in ten acres, and representative of a Taranaki Pioneer Village to 1940 complete with village green and lake. It comprises of 50 established buildings, furnished and filled out in the period. The Village Homestead features the only known example of a 'Kauri Bath...

Set up to save the last remaining relics of Westlands Industrial heritage on the West Coast, for the benefit of West Coasters.

Ferrymead Heritage Park is a museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, housing a number of groups with historical themes, the most frequent of which is transport. Formerly known as Ferrymead Historic Park, it was founded in the mid-1960s by a number of groups, local...

The Waterwheel Heritage Park is an exciting project under development in Kawerau, New Zealand. Its aims are three-fold: To provide a tourist attraction for visitors to the Eastern Bay of Plenty; To protect and preserve the industrial archaeology of New Zealand; To...

The Athenree Homestead Trust was officially formed in 1995. Many years both before and after that date were followed by meetings, documentation, legalities and frustration with all the various authorities that required so much detail regarding our intention to...

Visit a reproduction of an 18th century Maori fishing village built in the traditional way using native materials. Explanatory noticeboards feature on each building and all plants are labelled with notes describing medical and practical uses. A carved fishing waka...

This is a historic homestead set in attractive grounds in a rural area. ;It was the home of one of the original settlers to the district. The Museum houses collections of photos and information of early settlers to the Clevedon district.