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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.
Our colonial programmes offer a combination of hands on learning experiences, authentic locations, and a large teaching collection of objects. Many of our colonial themed programmes can be combined to provide a customised learning experience for your students- often at no extra cost. Contact us for more details.
Out of the Toy Box
Learn about the social significance of toys and how they work by examining, playing with and making early toys.
School Days
The school days programme takes place in a 100 year old school house helping students understand what school was like for our grandparents and great-grandparents.
Before Electricity
This programme offers students the opportunity to work together to solve challenges relating to changes in household technology over the last 150 years. With permanent displays, historic photos/film, hands-on interaction collection items, this programme will excite students about the past.
OUR COLONIAL PAST
Morse to Messaging
By comparing and contrasting 1860's communication with today, students can make connections with the past in a language they understand.
Te Awamazing Race
The history of Te Awamutu is all around us. This programme gives your students the tools they need to connect with their town and the people who influenced it.
In Memory of the Fallen
Through hands-on activites and exploration of collection items, allow your students to discover the connection between where they live and the Gallipolli military campaign that shaped the course of WW1 and our country.
The Way We Wore
Fashion is a key part of everyday life, a reflection of society that can give us insights into how people in the past lived and how they wanted to be understood. Use our extensive textile collection to inspire your students and to expand their understanding of fashion
The National Dairy Museum
The National Dairy Museum showcases the fascinating history of dairy farming in New Zealand, from the arrival of the first cows to refrigerated shipping, transportation and more. This programme takes students on a guided tour of interactive features and fascinating artifacts.
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.
Heritage Village
In this parent and teacher led programme students work in groups to locate collection items at the Blacksmiths, the Garage, the church, the school, the hospital, and the Jail. Once found students use their powers of deduction to figure out what objects are to solve the I-Spy challange.
Butter Side Up
This programme looks at how we have gone full circle from home-made butter, through mass production, back to home-made butter again. Which butter is better, the mechanized version or the home made/artisan version?
Farming in the Waikato
Help your students understand how farming and its supporting industries have changed in the Waikato with this hands on programme
Temple Cottage
Built in the late 19th Century for Militia on Alexandra Reserve in Kihikihi, and later given to Charles Temple to place on his land grant section in Whittaker Street, this restored cottage gives a hands on experience of life 150 years ago.
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.
Victorian Childhood
Try something new with old toys, games, chores and school from the past in this fun-focused exploration of what it could be like to be someone else, some-when else!
