what's on
Permanent exhibits
We have many permanent exhibits to see including:
- Maori settlement
- the springs that made Te Aroha famous
- private spa room from the Bath House's heyday
- sport
- farming and agriculture including the story of
Mrs Gladys Reid, “The Zinc Lady”
- geology and mining
- business
- medicine in Te Aroha
- Communications room
- fire!
- natural history
- past-times
- Art room
- history of Te Aroha and Lemon
We also have an impressive Mergenthaler Linotype 14 hot metal
machine which has a very interesting international story.
The Museum has over 350 pieces of its souvenir china collection on display; its a fine collection and well worth seeing.
Changing displays
We refresh our displays on a regular basis creating centre-
pieces about particular people, stories or artefacts:
- Celebrating Te Aroha's rugby history
- Calamity!
- Bottles from the past
-School days - in the early 1900's
- From China to Te Aroha
- Our Aviation story
- The Home Guard
- Emergency Precautions Service
- Theatres of Te Aroha
- Te Aroha's railway history
- Local bands of yesteryear
- A place to stay
- Honouring our People
The story of Te Aroha West village
Still to come this year:
- Governance
- Then and now