WORLD WAR 1 SOLDIER PHOTOS WANTED
154 Soldiers enlisted for active service in World War 1 from Raglan and District. The Raglan Museum is seeking photographs of 51 soldiers to complete our memorial board. The names are listed below. If you…
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Museum closed 1st to 3rd June
The Raglan Museum will be closed from Wednesday 1st July to Friday 3rd July. Back in March, the Waikato District Council announced that it would be closing the Raglan i-SITE at the end of June….
Toy Box Treasures / Pouaka taonga tākaro – from the Raglan Museum Collection opens June 2020.
Toy exhibition. Toys from past years will be displayed in a new exhibition opening in the museum atrium soon. Many of the toys were given to the museum by Eileen Beach-Kelly, grand-daughter and daughter of…
Spontaneous display of large and small poppies
Anzac Day 2020. A spontaneously-made display of large and small poppies appeared outside the museum on Anzac Day, during lockdown. Locals seemed to appreciate the reminder of the wartime sacrifices with many pictures of the…
Egyptologist’s research journey starts and ends at Raglan Museum
When an American Professor saw a photo of a small amulet on the Raglan Museum website, it began a journey which concluded with her meeting the descendants of the Raglan man who found the amulet…
