Lake Wanaka - the home of New Zealand’s National Transport & Toy Museum. This fascinating collection houses one of the largest private collections in the world.


The museum is the result of one man’s dream and 50 years of collecting and preserving pieces from the past. The transport collection boasts rare and unusual aircraft, cars, trucks, motorcycles, fire appliances, military vehicles and tractors.


A nostalgic selection of toys has something to fascinate the child in everyone, such as clockwork and battery powered toys, porcelain dolls, teddy bears, pedal cars and money boxes.



The Museum offers indoor and outdoor playing areas with pedal tractors and trucks for the kids. The Museum shop has thousands of models and gifts. Light refreshments are also available.


National Transport and Toy Museum features:

• 100,000 sq feet of indoor displays

• 16 acres of outdoor display area

• 600 vehicles

• 30 fire engines

• 30,000 toys

• Dolls houses, rocking horses & prams

• Construction & earth moving vehicles

• 2000 Teddy bears and dolls

• 3000 tin and wind up toys

• Movie & TV memorabilia<

• The best toy shop in New Zealand

+ Much More!