Each year items are donated to the Ashburton Museum and Historical Society collection. Through this process, Rokowhiria Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum acquires new treasures to be cared for, researched and displayed. Sharing Histories presents a selection of objects, archives and photographs newly acquired in 2025-2026. These were assessed, accepted and preserved by our collections…

In 1976, Whakatere Ashburton prepared to celebrate the county’s centenary and welcome back an old familiar sound – the chiming of its town clock. Manufactured in 1903 and commissioned in 1904, the clock was removed in 1946 and placed into storage, with no certainty as to its future. Thirty years later, a small team of…