2.30pm, Saturday 25th July, Petone Settlers Museum Hats off to Hills Hats! Join the Hills Hats factory family for a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party to celebrate Petone Settlers Museum’s newest exhibition, Enter the Hatmosphere. Small but mighty, this little hat factory designs and manufactures hats for Fat Freddy’s Drop and Lady Gaga, as well as […]
Sarah Robinson, Social History Curatorial Intern In my last post, I talked about the beauty and variety of social history collections. This week I want to delve into the magical world of nostalgia. Nostalgia, yearning for the past, is a tricky beast. It’s a kind of in-between state where one might long for things from their […]
Sarah Robinson, Social History Curatorial Intern One of the things I love most about working with museum collections is the weird stuff you come across; sometimes these things have accompanying records that tell you what they are, sometimes you have to do some investigating and sometimes you just have to guess. The beauty of social […]
