It’s a crazy day at MOTAT! It must be a Live Day!
Have a look at this drawing from the MOTAT collection online by artist Merton Lacey – It shows a MOTAT Live Day with a lot of things going on from different time periods.

Merton Lacey. The Museum of Transport and Technology of New Zealand, 02/065/001. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
Look closely and what can you find?
How Many?
- Wheels can you find?
- Horses can you find?
- Telephone booths can you find?
- Balloons can you find?
- Dad’s giving their children shoulder rides?
- People wearing old fashioned clothing?
Can you find?
- The Pumphouse
- A lady with a pushchair
- Someone riding a penny-farthing bicycle
- A man carrying a ladder
- A man cranking a car to get it started
- An advert for a brand of petrol
- A plane
- A dog off the leash
- A lazy person on a tandem bicycle
- Meg Merrilies
- A man in a top hat
Feel like an extra challenge? Set yourself a time limit and time yourself!
Now its your turn!
Create your own MOTAT themed Eye Spy using a picture from MOTAT’s online collection. Email it to us at motat.fun@motat.org.nz