The much anticipated opening of our new exhibition Te Horea – the Bird Family Collection will be at 10am on Saturday 17th October. The Raglan Whaingaroa community is invited. Everybody is welcome and there will be free entry to the Museum for the morning.
The Bird Family Collection of Maori artefacts is from Horea, the north head of Raglan (Whaingaroa) Harbour. Horea was a desirable place to live. Large numbers of people lived there in kainga (villages) over the centuries. Some of the sites are amongst the earliest known for the west coast between Manukau Harbour and Mokau.
Keith Bird and family
Keith Bird farmed Horea from the mid-1940s. Keith and his family collected the taonga (treasured artefacts) from the property. The
collection is significant in being one of the largest collected in New
Zealand by one family from a small localised area. In 2012 the Bird
family deposited the collection of over 2000 items in Raglan Museum as a long-term loan.
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