Tauranga Historical Society

“Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. It is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill, a gar...

Matakana Island’s 20 km-long, ocean-facing Panepane Beach - notorious among 19 th century Māori and    Pākehā  seafarers - posed a serious ...

From Tauranga City Library’s archives A monthly blog about interesting items in our collection In 2023, the Library's Heritage and Rese...

In colonial times, for safety reasons, settlers often constructed a kitchen separate from the main homestead.  This was certainly the case i...

  Excavation at  Ō tūmoetai   pā on Levers Road, 2005. Image courtesy of Tauranga Museum. In 2005, archaeologists made a significant discove...