Blacks Point Museum sits a little outside Reefton in an old church, which is exactly the kind of building that suits it. The collection is local, dense, and practical: photographs, school and cemetery records, mining gear, family material, and the sort of objects that explain how a goldfield settlement actually functioned.
The museum is especially good if you like small volunteer-run places where the person on duty may know more than the labels. It turns Reefton's mining history from a town slogan into names, tools, and working machinery.