welcome to our museum

The Packard Motor Museum

provides an informative educational experience

based around the automobiles, machinery, stories and lives of those

who led the industrial revolution and created and shaped our modern way of life.

Most of our visitors are shocked, surprised
and some have trouble believing we have 5 sheds onsite to go through.
From the road,
it looks like a quick walk through the main building
then pop next door to the shed with “Anawhata Museum Trust” painted on it.

Ah, no… Have a look at the picture below and the list underneath.

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The Mostly English Shed
Walk into this shed and maybe you’ll find the car you learnt to drive in or the car Grandad owned when you were little…

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Steam & Traction Engines
We also have a restored Dubs 0-4-0 Steam Engine built in 1873. A restored engineers railway jigger from 1895.

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Other Interesting Things
No matter what your interest we are bound to have something for you here… Graeme collected anything that resulted…

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