This cannonball was fired from a government paddle steamer in 1869 and was one of the last shots fired in the Taranaki wars.

This light alerted motorists to the rabbit gate that prevented rabbits from crossing the newly erected Mokau River Bridge.

Scrimshaw bullock horns carved by a prisoner waiting on death row in Mt Eden prison. They were gifted to the prisoner’s jailer who brought them home to Mokau with him.