Southward Car Museum
The Southward Car Museum is an automobile museum and event centre in Otaihanga, New Zealand. It was established by Len Southward in the 1970s to house his collection of over 450 vehicles and several aircraft and is now run by a charitable trust.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Museum
- Description: automobile museum and event center in Paraparaumu, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Southward Museum” and “Southwards car Museum”
- Address: Otaihanga Road
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kapiti Coast Airport and Paraparaumu railway station.
Kapiti Coast Airport
Aerodrome
Kapiti Coast Airport, also spelt Kāpiti Coast Airport and previously called Paraparaumu Airport, is on the Kāpiti Coast of New Zealand's North Island, between the Wellington dormitory suburbs of Paraparaumu Beach, Paraparaumu to the east, and Raumati Beach to the south. Kapiti Coast Airport is situated 4 km west of Southward Car Museum.
Paraparaumu railway station
Railway station
Photo: Elevators115, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Paraparaumu railway station in Paraparaumu on the Kāpiti Coast, New Zealand, is an intermediate station on the Kāpiti Line section of the North Island Main Trunk for Metlink's electric multiple unit commuter trains from Wellington. Paraparaumu railway station is situated 3 km southwest of Southward Car Museum.
Waikanae Park
Park
Waikanae is a town on the Kāpiti Coast, 60 km north of the Wellington, New Zealand. The name is a Māori word meaning "waters" "of the grey mullet". The area surrounding the town is notable for its 2.4-kilometre-long beach, the Waikanae River estuary, the Kapiti Marine Reserve, and Kapiti Island, which lies 4 km offshore in the Tasman Sea. Waikanae Park is situated 3 km northeast of Southward Car Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Otaihanga and Waikanae Beach.
Otaihanga
Quarter
Photo: AxonsArachnida, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Otaihanga is on the Kāpiti Coast of New Zealand's North Island. It is just north of Paraparaumu on the south bank of the Waikanae River and is roughly 55 km north of New Zealand's capital city, Wellington.
Waikanae Beach
Suburb
Waikanae Beach is a suburb, which is situated 3 km north of Southward Car Museum.
Paraparaumu
Photo: Henry Burrows, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Paraparaumu, Paraparaumu Beach and the adjoining village of Raumati are on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand's North Island.
Southward Car Museum
- Categories: automobile museum, nonprofit organization, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Kāpiti Coast District, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-40.89413° or 40° 53′ 39″ southLongitude
175.02871° or 175° 1′ 43″ eastOpen location code
4VFQ424H+8FOpenStreetMap ID
way 333398320OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q7571111
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In Other Languages
“Southward Car Museum” goes by many names.
- Japanese: “サウスワード自動車博物館”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Southward Car Museum”. Photo: Axver, CC BY-SA 3.0.