A local museum or local history museum is a type of museum that shows the historical development of a place/region ( local history ) using exhibits. These museums usually maintain a collection of historic three-dimensional objects which are exhibited in displays. Such museums are often small in nature and generally have a low budget for their running costs. As such, many of the collections are compiled, cataloged, and interpreted by amateur historians as well as professionals.
7-530: The Rotorua Museum Te Whare Taonga o Te Arawa is a local museum and art gallery in the Government Gardens near the centre of Rotorua , New Zealand. The museum is housed in the former Bath House building which was opened in 1908 and is noted as the first major investment in the New Zealand tourism industry by the government. The Bath House is a half-timbered building that has been called
14-695: A museum in New Zealand is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Local museum These museums can cover a governmental defined unit such as a town , city , county , or parish or they can cover an area defined within the museum's mission. In the United States while some museums may be part of the local government or receive funding from them in some way. However, most local history museums are usually self-funded. These museums can also run as independent organizations or they can managed by an accompanying local historical society which also will maintain an archive of local records in addition to
21-804: The Māori culture . The museum was closed in 2016 due to not meeting New Zealand earthquake standards. In 2023 the Rotorua Lakes Council committed to continuing and completing repairs to the building to enable it to reopen. Rev. J.S. Neil (July–December 1913), "Brighter Britain" , Theosophical Path Magazine , pp. 19–25 & 90–98, ISBN 9780766180444 , retrieved 16 March 2012 Arthur S Wohlmann (1914), The Mineral Waters and Spas of New Zealand , Wellington: John MacKay, Government Printer 38°08′08″S 176°15′33″E / 38.1356°S 176.2591°E / -38.1356; 176.2591 This article related to
28-401: The area such as a bank or a railroad depot. Many local museums are also open-air museums in which several historical buildings from the area have been collected in some museum villages and rebuilt in a new location. In some cases the character of the local history museum is superimposed with the representation of a famous or well-known person from the area, or focuses on a single branch of
35-400: The economy that was or is particularly formative for the region. Local history museums offer the interpretation of the everyday lives of ordinary people and the unique histories that locale may offer. These museums also offer a more in-depth look into the details of how national and international events affected the locale represented by the museum. In Germany, a specific type of local museum
42-631: The most impressive Elizabethan Revival building in New Zealand. Rotorua Museum opened in the south wing of the Bath House in 1969; Rotorua Art Gallery opened in the north wing in 1977. In 1988, the museum and gallery combined to form the Rotorua Museum of Art and History. The museum is run by the Rotorua District Council . It has collections covering fine arts , photography , social history , and Taonga objects from
49-483: The museum's three-dimensional object collection. Local history museums are frequently housed in a historically significant or thematically typical building; it is often a former public building such as a school building, a former courthouse, or city/town hall since the structure, which was already owned by the municipality and can continue its use as a in the public realm as a museum. Other times museums are located in repurposed commercial buildings that had significance for
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