Waihi Arts Centre & Museum

16/02/2026

16/02/2026

Getting a new roof.

20/01/2026

Due to the current building works, we will be closed from the 20th till the 23rd Jan

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06/01/2026

Last week to visit the exhibition!

Perfect little activity for the school holidays: spend some time to explore the displays! And then pop in to the museum side too!

This has been a highly successful exhibition, thank you to all who have come to see it ☺️

Museum open every day during the holidays!

08/12/2025

It’s been a busy week with school visits and visitors. Chalk to Chromebooks is open until mid January. If you haven’t checked it out yet, come in… wonder through and enjoy a collection of school memories and history! Plus leave your voice in the interactive activity: What do you think school will be like in 100 years?

01/12/2025

Waihi East School visited the new exhibition yesterday, taking a look at the rest of the museum too! What a great visit! 🤩

28/11/2025

Hi all! Bella here! For those who don’t know me, I am the student representative on the Waihi Museum Committee. I have had the greatest pleasure of curating this amazing new exhibition at Waihi museum. Chalk to Chromebooks is a collaboration between Waihi Museum and the Waihi School community, together we have created this fantastic exhibition full of many wonders! Seeing the turnout tonight brought smiles to all the faces involved! So I would like to express my greatest thanks to everyone who attended the opening. And I would also like to thank:

Dorette Hartley for helping me bring this amazing exhibition to life. Briar Cardon-Scott for her continuous support and doing a fabulous opening of the exhibition. Anne-Marie Spicer for her extremely helpful support. Karyn Williams for her yummy food for the night and Stuart, Greta and Batsie for serving the food and drinks.

I would also like to thank my fellow volunteers and committee members at the museum who have put in some incredible effort and helped us along the way, and for the use of the gallery space.

To Art Waikino for letting us once again borrow these extremely useful frames in which each display is on. And to each school for contributing their history in this exhibition, and creating amazing displays full of history, stories and creativity. And to every person who lent the exhibition their most precious artifacts.

Once again a big thank you to the community for attending Waihi School Communities and Waihi Museums latest exhibition, Chalk to Chromebooks: Waihi Schools through the decades. (Open until mid January 😊)

Thank you so much,
Bella 💕

27/11/2025

Opening Tonight! 🎉

Doors open at 5 and close at 7. Yummy refreshments provided

Can’t wait to see you all there!

27/11/2025

Opening tomorrow night! Come along and enjoy a night of celebration for this new exciting exhibition from the school community. Some amazing work has been put into these displays with interesting history brought to life, stories shared and artifacts once again being put to use.

Doors open at 5 and close at 7.

Refreshments provided

Can’t wait to see you all there!