The following events have been arranged for Friends of Cambridge Museum. If you are not already a member, please consider joining (Friends details here). If you’re curious about where you live and like learning about the past, it’s a great place to start. And for $20 a year excellent value too. Join here. 

Upcoming Events

 

Tuesday, 9 July: Cambridge Stud Heritage Centre
Meet at 128 Discombe Road RD3, Hamilton 3283 at 10 am

Limited to 20 people.

This is a must-see destination for anyone with an interest in local history and thoroughbred horse breeding and racing. Inside there are interactive displays, photographs, trophies, and memorabilia that tell the story of locally-born Sir Patrick Hogan and Sir Tristram’s contribution to the New Zealand and international racing industry. The present and future operations of Cambridge Stud and its world-class facilities is also at the forefront of this exhibition.

Be quick, as numbers are limited. RSVP by Friday 5 July.

 

Tuesday, 20 August 2024
Kihikihi Police Station and Temple Cottage,  20 August 2pm – $3 per person, including morning tea

Kihikihi is home to the only police house still on its original site and in public ownership in the country. It combines the constables’ dwelling, the police station, the ablution building and the jailhouse and they are all located at Ratatu Reserve. Inside the restored buildings are artefacts, games, old books, costumes, an organ and old film that has been digitised. Enjoy tours through the jail-house and more, as well as a themed afternoon tea. Not to be missed.

Please RSVP by emailing admin@cambridgemuseum.org,nz by 9 August 2024

 

Friday 23 August 2024
Richard von Sturmer, poet and author of Walking with Rocks – Dreaming with Rivers – My Year in the Waikato

Richard von Sturmer is a New Zealand writer. He was born on Auckland’s North Shore in 1957. His recent books are the acclaimed memoir, This Explains Everything (Atuanui Press, 2016), Postcard Stories (Titus Books, 2019), Resonating Distances (Titus Books, 2022) and the recently published Walking with Rocks, Dreaming with Rivers: My Year in the Waikato (Titus Books, 2023). He is well-known for writing the lyrics of ‘There is No Depression in New Zealand,’ which has become the country’s alternate national anthem.

In 2020 he was the University of Waikato’s writer in residence. During his residency he explored the Waikato region, writing on its towns and geographic features. The result is now a book, Walking with Rocks, Dreaming with Rivers: My Year in the Waikato.

‘This beautiful object, this dream set down on paper, is travel writing regained, and put to rights. The first person invested in it is the reader. You are about to go on a journey. You are in good hands: great travel writing picks you up and swings you along like luggage.’ – Steve Braunias

‘An extraordinary meditation on settings across the Waikato – museums where he’s the only visitor, lifestyle blocks where “you can feel history evaporating,” lakes where the only images reflected are clouds.’ – Tracey Slaughter

Please RSVP by emailing admin@cambridgemuseum.org,nz by 16 August 2024

 

Coming soon, dates for your diary

Saturday, 21 September 2024
House Tour: Dingley Dell

Friday October 25th, 2024
Warren Gumbley, The Waikato Horticultural Complex: Adaptation of Polynesian agronomy to a temperate environment.

Last updated June 2024