About Us

Pete's Pioneer and Transport Museum is a Charitable Trust, operating in a purpose built building, located at 460 Kerikeri Road, Kerikeri.

The Museum exhibits transportation and collectables, themed around New Zealand's history and heritage from pre-European times. 

Volunteers make up 98% of the staff manning the Museum on a day to day basis. Their stories and enthusiasm for vintage cars, history and heritage of New Zealand provide the visitor with an added snap-shot of "kiwi culture". 

The Museum has been open since May 2004 and is housed in three distinct wings that follow a timeline of events in New Zealand history. One wing is currently dedicated to vintage and classic car. A second wing provides the visitor with veteran cars, pioneer exhibits set in models of a bushman's huts, blacksmiths foundry, pioneer house, grocery shop and school house of yesteryear. An upstairs area houses the Barry Crump collection (a New Zealand icon) period clothing and a small theatre showing heritage footage of a variety of past events relating to transport. 

Give yourself at least an hour to walk through the Museum and ask Pete to play you a tune on the Pianola and have a bit of a sing-along to brighten up your day.