This article is from pages 46-47 of the November 1948 edition of PIX magazine. It describes the private museum and gardens built by retired school teacher, Emilia Nixon of Howick, Auckland. Her home is described as the 'first Folk Museum in the islands'. Her collection contains reproduced models of homes and cultural artifacts of Māori and early New Zealand settlers.  Her grounds contain a small carved whare, with the exterior carved by Chappé Hall who is described as a 'leading pakeha craftsman of Maori art in the Dominion'.