Here are more exhibits about New Zealand culture in the Lower Exhibition Hall of MOTAT with the displays entitled "Rattle your Dags", "Signposts to Godzoone", and "Shutter Camera Exhibition".

This a mini truck which transported health foods during the first half of the 1900s in New Zealand.

A wooden KIWI statue.  This is the animal after which all New Zealanders are called.  The citizens of New Zealand chose this term to refer to themselves and they are mighty proud of it.  Just like the term PINOY for Filipinos and Yankees for Americans.

Billy T. James's Chevrolet Deluxe

Here's a vintage car full of picnic baskets as KIWIs celebrate life and enjoy their time in the country during the early 1900s.

Talking about everything KIWI, I never realized Anchor Butter, the butter brand I grew up with in Manila comes from New Zealand.  A Filipina neighbor of ours in San Francisco, who used to live in New Zealand, told us about it too.  We wanted to take some home with us, but with a trip to Australia still pending and considering how strict customs were in New Zealand and in Sydney, we were too scared to buy any only to have to toss them in the trash bin in the airport.

The beautiful Victorian Village at the MOTAT

Our first stop at the Victorian Village was the primary school.

This is a replica of a primary school during the Victoria era in New Zealand.  Just take a look at the rules which all KIWI teachers had to follow back then.

I am a teacher and I must say, "You can take the teacher out of the classroom but you cannot take the classroom out of the teacher"

Scenes from the Victorian Village

The commercial center

A car repair shop and garage

The Chapel of the Good Shepherd

Inside the Chapel of the Good Shepherd

The Willow Cottage, which used to be in Parnell and owned by a former ship's carpenter and cabinet-maker

The Lawker/Sattelday Cottage, now a village gallery in MOTAT

The Paddywagon, a wagon that carried prisoners in the olden days in New Zealand

This was named after the wagons in New York which carried lots of Irish prisoners hence the name Paddy.

A poster with a picture of the older version of the Paddywagon, one that was horse drawn

Other displays at MOTAT

A colorful vintage bus, very 70s

A old telephone booth similar to the ones found years ago in New Zealand's mother country, England

I enjoyed MOTAT a lot.  There was definitely a lot to see.  One can easily spend a day here.  I hope to visit it again someday.