Te Awamutu Museum

Te Awamutu Museum. Our collection is made from artefacts that inform the memories of the Waipa District. At the heart of our collections are taonga Maori and Pasifika artefacts, as well as historical past cloth associated with Waipa’s colonial duration and the New Zealand Wars. The Museum archives incorporate examples of our documentary heritage, inclusive of historic snap shots, maps, and whakapapa and family histories Our Tangata Whenua gallery displays taonga of the Tainui people who settled inside the area with video memories of Uenuku.

We have hobby trails in the course of the museum and Wahi Akoranga The Learning Place is in which you can discover colouring pages, jigsaws and different fingers on sports for children of every age. Te Awamutu Museum additionally homes a great archive on neighborhood history to be had to researchers. Nestled inside the museum is Miss Jefferson's Curios, which shares neighborhood and countrywide records books and a range of merchandise using the Museum collection.