Our museum provides a window on local history for the Raglan Whaingaroa area and adjacent districts. We are in Wainui Road (opposite Stewart Street), Raglan
07 825 7195
PO Box 41, Raglan 3265
Waikato
Saturday & Sunday 1pm - 3.30pm
By koha (donation)
Our exhibits cover Maori, settler, farming, surf life saving, art, natural science, photography and town life history. The museum is proud to hold the taiaha of Te Awaitaia, prominent Ngati Mahanga chief and Treaty of Waitangi signatory.
Much of the collection illustrates domestic, rural and town life in Raglan, mainly during the early twentieth century. Items of interest include the doors from the Raglan jail, the first telephone exchange switchboard, the first surf life saving reel and an extensive collection of pharmacy items used by T. B. Hill, the town’s first chemist. There is an extensive photographic collection and many early copies of the town’s newspaper, The Raglan County Chronicle.
The Raglan Museum was established in 1966 in a room in the Raglan Town Hall, moving to its present home in the old fire station building in 1984.
