Excellent collection and well laid out. Good Maori section too. Friendly and informative staff... read more
Excellent collection and well laid out. Good Maori section too. Friendly and informative staff... read more
Great little museum. If you are into social history you could easily spend an hour or so here... read more
My grandson loves to visit this museum when we have time to stop. Even though it is small, one always learns something from the lovely displays. Very education for the young and not so young. The outside is lovely to explore too. Well worth visiting.
Nice to read your feedback. We love seeing the children here and have some fun activities for them, including a museum hunt, dress ups, etc. Thanks for the review.
Cambridge museum is housed in the old court house with a small sunken garden outside. The focus era is quite narrow and relays on captured European memories and records of life at the end of the european invasion and war against Maori. There is very little information on the indigenous people of that time or since, and contribution they have made in the area. Provincial and very Colonial, much like the town itself.
Thank you for your review. We have storyboards at the Cambridge Museum on 'Before the Pakeha', 'Waikato Land Wars', 'After the Wars' and 'The Search for Maori Sovereignty'. We also have taonga (Maori artefacts and objects) on display and in our Collections Store. We agree that there should be more material on the history of the Maori people of the Cambridge region available and we are working on this. Regards Kathryn Parsons, Museum Manager.
Super clean, extremely well organised, attention to detail - a real asset to Cambridge! A lot of hard work has brought this wonderful museum up to a high standard for locals and visitors. Well done to all involved.
It is small, free, in an historic building and gives the sort of insight into a small local town's development that is worth the minor detour down the Main Street of Cambridge. Larger museums give a fuller picture of NZ north island and the major changes and wars at home and abroad that profoundly shaped people's lives. However, although some of the history may not sit exactly with current global interpretations the museum gives a broadly settler centred insight to the establishment of what is a small but prosperous town.
Encouraging to hear your thoughtful response. Thanks for the feedback.
There are so really interesting items in the small but well presented museum. Lots of interesting facts about Cambridge.
It is small, with just two rooms to visit, both with an interesting selection of local items on display.
Thanks for the review. We like to keep it interesting by updating the display regularly, and our research collection is also popular.