The Hokitika Museum
★—This small but carefully curated museum is in a restored Carnegie Public Library building, circa 1908. The collections include a number of artifacts and objects from the 1860s gold-mining era and an excellent exhibition of the people and places of the early district by photographer Charles Robert Kirk (1876–1954). The photographs of Maori leaders are compelling, as is the audiovisual section on greenstone (jade) and gold. For visitors wondering about the strange appeal of whitebait, the museum has many answers to frequently asked questions. A recent addition (and definite oddity) is a Meccano model of a river dredge.
★—This small but carefully curated museum is in a restored Carnegie Public Library building, circa 1908. The collections include a number of artifacts and objects from the 1860s gold-mining era and an excellent exhibition of the people and places of the early district by photographer Charles Robert Kirk (1876–1954). The photographs of Maori leaders are compelling, as is the audiovisual section on greenstone (jade) and gold. For visitors wondering about the strange appeal of whitebait, the museum has many answers to frequently asked questions. A recent addition (and definite oddity) is a Meccano model of a river dredge.
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