New Zealand Rugby Museum, Church Street
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Palmerston North resident John Sinclair suggested to the New Zealand Rugby Union they should form a national rugby museum, in 1967. By 1969 the 'museum' was collecting items and using temporary accommodation to display them, such as at a photographic studio in Cuba Street, Leopard Brewery Co., Commercial Hotel and the Manawatu Museum.
The first permanent home was the former Art Gallery building on the corner of Grey and Carroll Streets, rented from the City Council in 1977. In 1991 the museum moved to the former Kairanga County Council building at 87 Cuba Street, again rented from the Council. Then in 2011, it relocated to its current premises in the Te Manawa complex.
As well as a series of displays on the history of rugby the museum also has interactive exhibits, changing exhibitions and a research library. Today the museum attracts 10,000 visitors annually.
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Relation
- IMCA Digital Archive
- Date
- November 2, 2020
- Digitisation id
- 2020BD_IMCA-DigitalArchive_032840
- Format
- Born Digital
- Held in
- IMCA Digital Archive
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Creation
- Created By
- Ian Matheson City Archives
- Place
- Te Manawa, Palmerston North
Object rights
- License
- By Attribution Alone