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We have some exciting renovations happening at Kapiti Coast Museum over the next few months. The Greenaway room which houses a lot of our radio and television memorabilia, is getting an upgrade. Please keep an eye on this website as to when the Greenaway room will be open/closed to the public fo...

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KCDC have erected a new Heritage Trail sign for our museum (we are No. 6 on the trail). Please come and read a summary of postal services in Waikanae and the history of the site and the building—and then enter (between 1 and 4pm, Fri., Sat. or Sun.) and see how it used to function as a home and a po...

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Volunteer staff at Kāpiti Coast Museum are warm and welcoming.

In Volunteer Kāpiti’s monthly series featuring our volunteer community, Bron Thomas visits the Kāpiti Coast Museum.

Built in 1907, the old Waikanae Post Office in Elizabeth St is a fitting location to house the historical objects, re...

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Vianney Parata in front of the mural she created on a Kāpiti Coast Museum wall.

A new, bold and colourful mural on a previously bare concrete wall of Kāpiti Coast Museum links the Waikanae’s past and present.

Called He rau ringa e oti ai: Many hands make light work, the mural is the work of Te Ā...

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