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…

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…