Join us after hours at Te Manawa and take a whirlwind tour of deduction and creativity! Follow our clues to hidden locations around the museum and take your wildest selfie or family group shot at each spot. Submit your best ones to us and go in the draw to win some cool museum prizes. Children...
Step into the vast Te Manawa collection stores, where the museum houses almost 50,000 heritage objects. Every one has a story, and collection manager Cindy Lilburn, who'll lead the tour, knows most of them! Places are limited; please book by emailing enquiries@temanawa.co.nz.
Step into the historic Awahou South Schoolhouse and learn a lesson from the beginning of the 20th century. Try your hand at writing in ink and other tasks from the olden days! Free entry, no booking required.
Take a guided tour of the Tōtaranui cottage, Palmerston North's oldest residence, and see how people lived in the 19th century. Free entry, no booking required.
Step into the vast Te Manawa collection stores, where the museum houses almost 50,000 heritage objects. Every one has a story, and collection manager Cindy Lilburn, who'll lead the tour, knows most of them! Places are limited; please book by emailing enquiries@temanawa.co.nz.
Step into the historic Awahou South Schoolhouse and learn a lesson from the beginning of the 20th century. Try your hand at writing in ink and other tasks from the olden days! Free entry, no booking required.
Take a guided tour of the Tōtaranui cottage, Palmerston North's oldest residence, and see how people lived in the 19th century. Free entry, no booking required.
Sandy Adsett is a master of colour and kōwhaiwhai. His contributions to Māori art are multifaceted and continuing. Meet Dr Sandy Adsett in the Te Manawa Art Gallery as he talks with Reuben Friend, artist and curator of Toi Koru. They're joined in conversation by Professors Kura Te Waru-Rewiri and Robert Jahnke of Toioho ki...
Toi Koru presents the first major survey exhibition of paintings by the Māori master of colour and kōwhaiwhai, Dr Sandy Adsett. Featuring sixty paintings created over six decades, Toi Koru tracks the trajectory of Adsett’s painting practice from the late 1960s to today. The exhibition features artworks from major public collections, including the National Museum...
Build your love of bicycling with Te Manawa and the Active Transport team from Sport Manawatū! At the museum on 25 March, from 11am until 2pm, we’ll have bicycles on the brain. Old bikes are coming out of our collection for you to check out, and Sport Manawatū will have their pro cyclists there to...
Toi Koru presents the first major survey exhibition of paintings by the Māori master of colour and kōwhaiwhai, Dr Sandy Adsett. Featuring sixty paintings created over six decades, Toi Koru tracks the trajectory of Adsett’s painting practice from the late 1960s to today. The exhibition features artworks from major public collections, including the National Museum...
Our annual exhibition of NCEA Level 3 artwork returns. Each year we display the folios of students from around the region who received the Excellence grade in painting, photography, printmaking, design and more.
Phone: +64 (06) 355-5000
0800-4-A-MUSEUM
Te Manawa Museum
326 Main Street
Private Bag 11055
Palmerston North, 4442
Aotearoa New Zealand
HOURS:
Tues – Sun: 10am – 5.00pm
(Opens 1pm Anzac Day. Closed Good Friday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. Open Mondays during School Holidays)
Free general entry.
Donations appreciated
Charges may apply to some exhibitions/programmes.
