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The Museum of South Taranaki

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Winter Show Buildings – Hāwera

This photo was taken on Princes Street looking south. The building was built by the South Taranaki Winter Show Company…

Book: Tales & Taonga of South Taranaki

In case you missed it! Tales & Taonga of South Taranaki is a 200 pg book we recently published, crammed…

Blessing of the repainted Aotea Waka Memorial

The Aotea Waka Memorial in Pātea was unveiled in 1933 to commemorate the journey of the Aotea waka’s journey over…

Freaky Friday at the Museum

And now for something completely different! For the first time ever we will be hosting a Halloween themed ‘Night at…

children, family, family funday, halloween, nzhalloween, South Taranaki

Ōpunakē Pop-Up Museum

In conjunction with Heritage Month, Aotea Utanganui presents a pop-up photographic exhibition at Ōpunakē LibraryPlus. The exhibition showcases collection photographs,…

#archive, #exhibition, #heritagemonth, #opunake, #opunakelibraryplus, #southtaranaki

Pepeha Patea Area School Art Exhibition

From now until November 2020 we will be exhibiting work by Patea Area School students. Each month will show a…

art, children, education, exhibition, school children

Princes Street, Hāwera , Early 1880’s

This amazing early photograph of Hāwera is part of the Alexander Turnbull Library collection. I have identified it as Princes…

Hawera, history, South Taranaki, taranaki

The Building of the Current Museum

11 years ago the new museum was busy being built…(6 Aug 2009)

Aotea Utanganui, Museum, Patea, taranaki

Our New Archivist – Amber Wright

Amber Wright, Technical Archivist, cares for our maps, photographs, films and documents within the archives collection. When she’s not burrowed…

Aotea Utanganui, Archivist, history, Livingston Baker archives, Museum, South Taranaki

Tales & Taonga Exhibition

Our current exhibition features items and photographs from the archives and some are featured in our upcoming book of the…

exhibition, history, Museum, museum collections, South Taranaki, Tales & Taonga, Tales&Taonga, taranaki

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