Otautau Museum

We've added a new page to our blog called Recent Acquisitions . It has a little bit about the items that people have donated to us over ...

Here are some images of a rare program for the Wallace Mounted Rifles First Re-union at the Crown Hotel, Otautau, 13 July 1913. Photos court...

Our latest acquisition is a corn kernel grinder made by the Enterprise Manufacturing Co., Philadelphia, USA. This heavy duty machine - and I...

A few weeks ago, we were lucky to receive a Lillicrap's Hone from a couple who had found it whilst cleaning out an old house in Mossb...

We were delighted to receive these photos of the old baths at Holt Park. This seems to be the official opening of the baths as Adam Hamilton...

One of our recent acquisitions is a box of invoices from the old Western Trading Store, dated 1940. The grocer/draper shop, owned by W.J.F. ...

Today we received a boon to our family history resources - 14 Southland phone books. Now and then, people ask us where their ancestors lived...

One of our recent acquisitions is this photo of the Otautau Senior Rugby Team, 1974. This was passed on to us by someone in the Winton Genea...

Our most recent acquisitions are these two post cards of early Main Street, c. 1908. The one above shows part of the original town hall, and...

Today at the museum, a local couple came by with this gold medal for me to photograph. It was created by Otautau jeweller, William J. Wesney...

We regularly receive photos from the public to scan for our collection. We then return them once we have made a digital copy. This is a win-...