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Te Awamutu Museum provides a variety of educational experiences at a variety of locations across the Waipa District. Our educational offering caters for school aged students, and is funded by the Ministry of Education and the Waipa District Council.
Orginally the Cambridge Court House, Te Whare Taonga O Te Kemureti contains an extensive collection of artefacts and archives relating to the history of Cambridge, its districts and people, and with recent changes the museum can now hold eduction sessions for school students.
Cambridge Museum
The Amazing Race: Cambridge
The history of Cambridge is all around us. This programme gives your students the tools they need to connect with their town and the people who influenced it.
Breaking the Treaty
Help your students understand the origins of our second founding document, understand what was agreed to, how it has been broken time after time, and what the Treaty of Waitangi means for us today.
Out of the Toy Box
Learn about the social significance of toys and how they work by examining, playing with and making early toys.
Traditional Tools - Maori Innovation
Through close interaction with artifacts, students will understand the innovation demonstrated by pre-European Maori in developing technology to meet the challenges of the New Zealand environment.
Muka: The Heart of Harakeke
Discover the magic of Muka! use traditional methods to extract the silky fibre hidden inside NZ's common Harakeke (flax) plant. Learn about the once fundamental art of weaving muka (whatu) and experience this "dying craft" in action, complete with presentation of facilitator's own traditional muka korowai and the story behind it.
The Cambridge Story
Students work in groups to discover key objects from our collection and how these taonga link to the tipuna, events and places of Cambridge.
