Background
Established in 2016, Western Bay Museum is in Katikati at the northern end of Tauranga Moana, and sits within the cultural landscape shaped by the three local hapū: Ngāi Tamawhariua, Ngāti Te Wai, and Te Whānau ā Tauwhao. These hapū, along with Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tamawhariua, provide the cultural foundation and authority for the Museum’s engagement in this region.
The Western Bay Museum’s charitable purpose is to conserve, preserve, rehome, catalogue and display items of relevance from the past as taonga, and telling stories of those who call our place 'home'. Each year we create and host exhibitions, programmes and activities that bring in over 14,000 visitors per annum (local, regional, national and international visitors from over sixty countries and counting).
Te Whare Taonga o Western Bay
I te tau 2016, i tū te Whare Taonga o Western Bay ki Katikati, ki te raki o Tauranga Moana, e noho ana i raro i te korowai o ngā hapū e toru: Ngāi Tamawhariua, Ngāti Te Wai, me Te Whānau ā Tauwhao. Ko ēnei hapū, me Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tamawhariua, ngā mana whenua o te rohe nei e tautoko āna te mana whakahaere o tēnei Whare Taonga.
Ko te whāinga matua o te Whare Taonga he pupuri, he tiaki, he whakahoki, he whakaatu hoki i ngā taonga tuturu nō mai rā no, me te horapa i ngā kōrero tukuiho o tēnei rohe kainga.
Ia tau, ka hanga, ka whakahaere mātou i ngā whakaaturanga, ngā whakakitenga, ngā kaupapa e kawe mai āna neke atu ki te 14,000 manuhiri a ia tau (ngā manuhiri ā-rohe, ā-motu, ā-ao hoki mai i ngā whenua e ono tekau, ā, kei te piki tonu te tokomaha).
Charity details: CC53141
Our Vision
Te whaiāo ki te āo mārama
To seek the world of light.
