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Small Museums of Southland This is a page for the small, mainly volunteer-run museums of the Southland region (NZ) where they can celebrate their museum and collections.

There are approximately thirty small museums in the Southland region (New Zealand) and the majority of them are run by volunteers whom for decades have been the gatherers and keepers of their community's moveable and immoveable cultural heritage. The purpose of this page is to be a place where they can connect and collectively share and celebrate who they are and what they do to a wider audience.

05/09/2026

Support for collaborative projects that strengthen the care of taonga and collections.

05/09/2026
05/09/2026
04/09/2026

Thanks Judith Frentz for sharing this snap of the events section of Kia Ora Air NZ in flight magazine. It features our annual Art Challenge, and the image they chose to use showcases the 2025 entry by Roger Thompson, but also in the background you catch a glimpse of the art entered by Anne Pillcher Gough, Fleur Soper, Melissa Thoroughgood, Catriona Cunningham and Wayne of the Hill. This year is going to be even bigger with a record number of artists expressing their interest. Exhibition opens the last weekend in September.

18/08/2026
18/08/2026

Willie Martin was a man of many talents. As a boy he was a champion highland dancer. He trained as a florist, established Rosedene Floral Studio in Gore and was an active member of the Mataura Horticultural Society. He also ran a dance school in Mataura called the Manifold School of Dancing. We hold numerous items relating to Willie's life and it is worth searching our records to get a wider sense of his interesting life.

14/08/2026

Join us to celebrate 40 years since our beginnings as an incorporated society. Learn about the challenges conservators faced in setting up the first preservation facilities in Aotearoa and how the conservation profession rapidly forged its own identity and practice. Hear about recent challenges i...

14/08/2026

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