Wainuiomata Museum

Learn how children of the past experienced school, in an old schoolroom. It features old wooden furniture and floors, blackboards and slates, text books, pot belly stove and a huge enamel jug for serving cocoa to cold children who’d just walked to school. Main Road, Wainuiomata. Open Sunday 2-4pm, gold coin admission. Ph 970 4127 or 970 6822.