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The New Zealand Herald | Monday, December 9, 2024
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MATAKOHE’S TREASURES:
Discovering the Legacy of the Mighty Kauri
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n the north shore of the Kaipara Harbour at Matakohe, deep in the heart of an ancient forest that’s gone, the Kauri Museum celebrates one of the world’s greatest trees and honours our relationship with it.
Above: A view of the Kauri Museum’s Forest Walkway, an aerial perspective of the museum, the Volunteers Hall & Otamatea Boarding House. Below: A stunning display of kauri gum.
For more than sixty years the Kauri Museum has shared stories of courage and determination, tragedy and triumph, boundless hope and unfathomable loss; stories of kauri making a nation. This natural history museum is one of the popular visitor destinations in the near north part of Northland. Only one hour from the end of the Auckland motorway, the Kauri Museum is an ideal way to start a visit to Northland. In 2023 it opened the Forest Walkway, an imagination-rich journey from the beginning of time where the Māori legend of Te Waonui o Tane comes alive for visitors, about the separation of earth and sky by god of the forest Tane Mahuta. Also located in Matakohe village are Gumdiggers Cafe which serves delicious food and great coffee, and the national monument of the Coates Memorial Church. The Kauri Bushmen’s Scenic Reserve is nearby, with its boardwalk through the bush, for those wanting to walk in a serene glade of ancient kauri forest near Matakohe before travelling on.
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