Hillsborough Holden Museum is New Zealand’s largest private collection of Holden cars and memorabilia, have a hit on their Bathurst-themed mini putt golf course, or a bite to eat in their Cafe.

683 Egmont Road,
Hillsborough 4372, New Zealand
P: +6467550044
Email: joyfabish@farmside.co.nz

Hillsborough Holden Museum Admission:

Adults:$20
Children under 16: $10
Family: $50 (2 adults, 2 children)
Under 5’s: FREE​

Plan: 1-2hr

Hillsborough Holden Museum Hours:

Saturday & Sunday 10 am – 4 pm

hillsboroughholdenmuseum.co.nz

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A visit to the Highlands Museum always inspires you to get behind the wheel for some trackside adventures so why not make a day out of it and enjoy some of the other thrilling attractions Highlands has to offer. It’s a fantastic base for groups and is the ultimate cocktail function venue, being able to accommodate up to 300 people in spectacular surroundings.

Your Museum Entry also includes access to the Young Guns Virtual Reality room. The Virtual Reality experience celebrates the Young Guns of New Zealand motorsport and you can do a virtual hot lap around the Highlands circuit with drivers such as Greg Murphy, Mad Mike and Hayden Paddon.

Sandflat Road,
Cromwell 9384, New Zealand
P: +034454052
Email: info@highlands.co.nz

Highlands National Motorsport Museum Admission:

Adults $30
65+ $20
Kids 5-16 $10

Plan: 1-2hr

Highlands National Motorsport Museum Hours:

Daily 10 am – 4 pm

highlands.co.nz

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Geraldine Vintage Car & Machinery Museum has over 1400 exhibits on display. These include 101 tractors from 1912 onwards, including the oldest working tractor in New Zealand, and thirty vintage cars from 1905. An interesting collection of classic cars.

There are many items of farm equipment including hot air engines, stationary motors, and a Threshing Mill. Also on display is a 1929 Spartan Biplane, household items, agricultural equipment, and much much more.

178 Talbot Street,
Geraldine 7930, New Zealand
P: +6436938756
Email: geraldinevintage@gmail.com

Geraldine Vintage Car & Machinery Museum Admission:

Adults $15

Plan: 1hr

Geraldine Vintage Car & Machinery Museum Hours:

First week of September to 1st weekend June: Mon-Sun 9.30 am – 4 pm Winter weekends only 10a.m – 4 p.m

nzmuseums.co.nz

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E Hayes and Sons is a family business. It is a company built around the strong family principles which our pioneering forefathers brought to Southland in the late 1800’s.

With them came a rich spirit of innovation, inventiveness and hard work which has grown in reputation, just as Southland itself has grown.

Since our earliest beginnings E Hayes and Sons have continued a proud family tradition of putting the needs of our customers first.

Our commitment to quality, service and expertise continues to underline that tradition providing leading Southland industries, trade customers and the general public with an extensive range of hardware, engineering and homeware products and services.
From tools, hardware, engineering, automotive, paint, chainsaws, powertools, lawnmowers, pumps and fasteners through to home ware, kitchen ware, gifts and workwear it’s a continually expanding range that must be seen to be believed.
But step inside the doors of our Dee Street store and you will soon see we are so much more than just a hardware store and engineering shop.

Proudly displayed throughout our store and FREE TO VIEW during normal shop hours, is an eclectic range of over 100 world-renown classic and vintage motorcycles, automobiles, engines, equipment and memorabilia which today makes up the E Hayes Motorworks Collection.

The collection is a legacy of a family passion for ingenuity, innovation and determination to go beyond the expected boundaries of convention and performance. Nothing demonstrates this more clearly than the centerpiece of the collection – Burt Munro’s Authentic, Original and Legendary record breaking “World’s Fastest Indian”

168 Dee Street,
Invercargill 9810, New Zealand
P: +6432182059
Email: admin@ehayes.co.nz

E. Hayes and Sons Admission:

Free

Plan: 1hr

E. Hayes and Sons Hours:

Monday – Friday 8 a – 5:30
Saturday 9 am – 4 pm
Sunday 10 am – 4 pm

ehayes.co.nz

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The owner of the museum is Tom Andrews, he is a successful and hardworking Hamilton business entrepreneur, proud family man and lover of all things classic. Brought up in Melville he has lived here all his life. Tom decided he needed some more room to store his increasing collection of automobilia and classic cars.

One of Tom’s first money-making ventures was fixing up cars as a teenager. This sparked a passion for automobilia and he has collected hundreds of pieces of old car-related artifacts such as by-the-gallon glass petrol pumps and early 20th century enameled Texaco signs. Tom started off building a ‘shed’ to house his expanding collection as it had well and truly outgrown his home.

Classics Museum was the result and the museum now houses over 100 cars and is one of Hamilton’s top tourist attractions. Tom runs the Classic Car Museum alongside his daughters Emily and Toni and his wife Diane.

New Zealand 11 Railside Place,
Dinsdale, Hamilton 3204, New Zealand
P: +6479572230
Email: info@classicsmuseum.co.nz

Classics Museum Admission:

Adults $20

Children (5-14yr) $8

Senior Citizen (65+yr) $12

NZ Student $15

Under 5’s Free

Plan: 1-2hr

Classics Museum Hours:

Daily 8 am – 3 pm

classicsmuseum.co.nz

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Canterbury Museum is one of Christchurch’s most popular attractions, located in the central city next to the Botanic Gardens.

Entry is free and donations are appreciated. Learn about the natural history of Canterbury, the people who have made their homes here and our connection to Antarctica.

The Māori galleries display treasures and tools from our region’s first people. The Christchurch Street and Victorian Museum recreate the nineteenth-century city. Learn about the heroic explorers of the icy continent and see objects from the Museum’s internationally significant Antarctic collection.

Other highlights include the gold-plated motorcycle that belonged to world speedway champion, Ivan Mauger and displays of the now-extinct giant bird, the moa. At the world-famous kiwiana icon, Fred & Myrtle’s Pāua Shell House see more than 1,000 pāua shells, the most you’ll find in any one place. Children will love learning about the natural world in their own area, Discovery.

11 Rolleston Avenue, Christchurch Central City,
Christchurch 8013, New Zealand
P: +6433665000
Email: info@canterburymuseum.com

Canterbury Museum Admission:

Free (donations accepted)

Plan: 1-2hr

Canterbury Museum Hours:

Daily 9 am – 5 pm

canterburymuseum.com

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