page_title: National Transport and Toy Museum, Wanaka
hierarchical_section_title: National Transport and Toy Museum, Wanaka
caption_attribution_description: Collection of classic British and European cars and fire trucks at Wanaka Transport and Toy Museum
context_page_description: The National Transport and Toy Museum in Wanaka, New Zealand is one of the largest private collections in the Southern Hemisphere and displays a large collection of items including over 650 vehicles, 15 aircraft and 60,000 toys plus thousands of miscellaneous items. Owned and operated by one family, the museum is located adjacent to the Wanaka Airport on State Highway 6.
  The main building houses part of the toy collection, notably a very large collection of Star Wars toys and memorabilia, a display of Barbie dolls through the decades, classic wooden and metal toys, as well as teddy bears and porcelain dolls. A toy shop at the entrance also sells a range of modern toys and models.
  The collections of vehicles and aircraft are on display in several large hangars. The hangars include a range of vehicles including cars, aircraft, airport ground support, construction vehicles, farm implements, farm tractors, fire engines, military vehicles, motorbikes, scooters and mopeds, pickups, trucks, horse-drawn vehicles, marine vehicles, and a range of additional miscellaneous vehicles.
context_section_description: The National Transport and Toy Museum in Wanaka, New Zealand is one of the largest private collections in the Southern Hemisphere and displays a large collection of items including over 650 vehicles, 15 aircraft and 60,000 toys plus thousands of miscellaneous items. Owned and operated by one family, the museum is located adjacent to the Wanaka Airport on State Highway 6.
  The main building houses part of the toy collection, notably a very large collection of Star Wars toys and memorabilia, a display of Barbie dolls through the decades, classic wooden and metal toys, as well as teddy bears and porcelain dolls.  A toy shop at the entrance also sells a range of modern toys and models.
  The collections of vehicles and aircraft are on display in several large hangars.  The hangars include a range of vehicles including cars, aircraft, airport ground support, construction vehicles, farm implements, farm tractors, fire engines, military vehicles, motorbikes, scooters and mopeds, pickups, trucks, horse-drawn vehicles, marine vehicles, and a range of additional miscellaneous vehicles.
  Outside of the buildings, the displays continue with machinery in various states of restoration, such as a long row of tractors and farming machinery.
  The museum has indoor and outdoor playing areas with adult-sized pedal cars, a play area and a range anti-aircraft guns that can be sat and moved by visitors.
caption: Part of the collections of classic cars and fire trucks in one of the hangars of the museum
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