Exhibits

• Unique display of all things nautical.
• Learn the story of the Rainbow Warrior bombing in Auckland Harbour.
• Maori artefacts - including the largest pre-European canoe exhibition in New Zealand.
• Collectors Hall with working model railway and village.
• Genealogy department.
• Impressive Kauri Gumdigger exhibition with operational gum-washing plant.
• Pioneer exhibits - see how early settlers lived and worked as they struggled to develop the land.
• Relics from the French warship L'Alcmene (wrecked 1851) and other shipwrecks recovered from the coast.
• Beautifully restored Aratapu Library building featuring the musical history of the area with over 200 piano accordions.

Museum Activities

• Guided museum tours, lunches, morning and afternoon teas for groups provided - bookings essential.
• Browse through the museum shop with its wide variety of quality gifts, souvenirs and books.

Coming Events

• Dargaville Museum is having a birthday on Saturday 26 June 2010 - Join us to celebrate 25 years since the official opening of the Dargaville Museum in Harding Park.  Free admission - morning and afternnon teas - sausage sizzle - Museum history quizz - behind the scenes tours - genealogy rooms open for family research - gum washing machine operating and more.
• "Ten Minutes to Midnight" - an exhibition to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Rainbow Warrior bombing in Auckland Harbour.  Opening 10 July 2010

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