Puhoi Heritage Museum

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About Puhoi Heritage Museum

Puhoi Heritage Museum is a village museum at 77 Puhoi Road in Puhoi, Rodney. It sits at the eastern entrance to Puhoi Village, next to the historic Church of Saints Peter and Paul. The museum is in the village's old school, which opened in 1923 and now also houses a playgroup. Puhoi is 47 km north of Auckland on State Highway 1, and 10 km north of Orewa.

The museum holds a photograph collection dating from 1883, and archives on genealogy, local families, military service, immigrant ships and newspaper clippings. It runs educational visits for school groups and touring parties, and offers village tours that take in the church, the village hall, the park and the logging dray. It also restores old photographs. The village was settled by Bohemian families in the 1860s, and the church was built by those settlers and opened in 1881. The museum closes on Christmas Day and Good Friday.