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ROTORUA MUSEUM IS A DEPARTMENT OF THE ROTORUA DISTRICT COUNCIL
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Become a Friend and enjoy chances to get closer…
The Friends promote awareness and enjoyment of Rotorua Museum as an essential part of our community.
We are here to help the museum in any way we can – by supporting existing programmes and initiating projects of our own.
The Friends provide a tangible link between the museum and our community.
The Friends are proud of Rotorua Museum of Art & History. Acclaimed in New Zealand and internationally, our museum welcomes over 100,000 visitors from around the world each year.
The museum presents an exciting programme of changing exhibitions which feature historical and contemporary fine art and photography as well as telling the ‘Great Stories’ of our area.
Friends will actively help the museum as it works towards the completion of the Centennial Development in August 2011. Your membership at this time is very important.
Key events in the Friends history
Over the last 45 years the Friends of Rotorua Museum have actively acquired a rich collection of contemporary New Zealand art, which is housed in the museum’s storage facility and available for use in a range of exhibitions.
Since its inception the Friends have co-hosted a biennial survey, Rotorua Artists. This has allowed local artists to test their mettle, raise their profile and win major prizes.
In 2000 the Friends mounted Mudpool Modernism, an important survey exhibition, and in 2006, Wilfred Stanley Wallis – the Area in Between.
Floor talks, lectures, historical walks and art excursions, along with practical projects to help the museum such as the 2003 purchase of Swedish folding stools, and a wheelchair, keep members involved.
Your membership helps us support our museum in a positive way.
The Friends offer
- A practical way of supporting our museum.
- A way of being involved in the ongoing development of Rotorua Museum and the Bath House.
- Opportunities to meet other people who are interested in art and in Rotorua’s history and culture.
- Invitations to openings and special Friends events.
- Regular communication through the quarterly museum newsletter.
- Notice of all public programmes at the museum
- A 10% discount at the museum shop.
- A 10% discount at the Bathhouse Café at the Museum.
- Free entry to Rotorua Museum.
For more information about the Friends of Rotorua Museum call 07 350 1814 or complete a Friends of Rotorua Museum enquiry form
To purchase your Friends of Rotorua Museum membership now visit our online store
Alternatively you can view the Friends of the Museum brochure here.
