This workshop starts at 2pm and runs till 4pm, please ring to book. $8per person including all adults.
Come celebrate a Polish Christmas with us, hear stories traditions and make decorations, using paper and wool.
Workshop for families and individual adults too
- Make wool spiders and paper chains with a twist for your own Christmas tree.
- Create your own unique paper Christmas start
- Taste the Polish ginger biscuit called Pierniki
- Learn some Christmas Eve traditions, watching the first star and Wigilia supper
Workshop is available for adults and/or children during the week a time and date to suit you…..
We are closed over the Christmas break, and will reopen 16 th Jan 2018 For all enquiries over this time regarding an ‘open after hours’ visit please phone:
021 107 1069 or 021 92 0005
And I will try accommodate a visit for you.
Please give me advanced notice, if possible, thanks Ellen
Hello I will be around some times during 18th to 22nd
Do give me a call, 021 107 0169 if you are from out of town!
We are closed over the Christmas break, and will reopen 16 th Jan 2018 For all enquiries over this time regarding an ‘open after hours’ visit please phone:
And I will try accommodate a visit for you.
Please give me advanced notice, if possible, thanks Ellen
Film ‘In Desert and Wilderness’
Celebrate Grandma and Grandpa’s days Saturday and Sunday this weekend!
Enjoy your school holidays with this amazing film. ‘ In Desert and Wilderness’ is an adaptation of the popular young adult novel, in Polish called ‘W pustyni i w puszczy’ written by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Beautiful photography. Film recommended for 7-8 years+
The main characters are fourteen year-old Stas Tarkowski and eight-year-old Nel Rawlinson who are thrilled to be with their fathers in the exotic land of Egypt. The palm trees and beaches offer a welcome change from the chills of Europe and the children are fascinated by the different languages and religions that make up the cultural fabric of North Africa….
For more details give us a call
Museum Hours: Tues – Fri 10-4 Sun 12-5
Artwork by Lindy Fisher
In house lesson: Identity/Migration: Polish children arrive in 1944
You are warmly invited to a Teacher Only Session for the Learning Outside The Classroom, PHTM educational programme called Stefania For Schools based on the book Stefania’s Dancing Slippers by Jennifer Beck and illustrated by Lindy Fisher.
Primary / Intermediate teachers and home educators are invited to visit the Polish Museum for a presentation, in preparation for student visits in 2018 . Experience the ‘Stefania for Schools’ lesson called Identity/Migration: Polish children arrive in 1944 with slideshow, objects and artworks, linked to the NZ school curriculum.
These free sessions are also available on request for your school team.
For bookings/enquiries and alternative dates email phtmuseum@outlook.com or call Lynette on 533 3530. Coffee/tea available.
This programmes is age appropriate from Years 3-8, age group 7-13 years old
Museum building
Artwork by Lindy Fisher
In house lesson: Identity/Migration: Polish children arrive in 1944
You are warmly invited to a Teacher Only Session for the Learning Outside The Classroom, PHTM educational programme called Stefania For Schools based on the book Stefania’s Dancing Slippers by Jennifer Beck and illustrated by Lindy Fisher.
Primary / Intermediate teachers and home educators are invited to visit the Polish Museum for a presentation, in preparation for student visits in 2018 . Experience the ‘Stefania for Schools’ lesson called Identity/Migration: Polish children arrive in 1944 with slideshow, objects and artworks, linked to the NZ school curriculum.
These free sessions are also available on request for your school team.
For bookings/enquiries and alternative dates email phtmuseum@outlook.com or call Lynette on 533 3530. Coffee/tea available.
This programmes is age appropriate from Years 3-8, age group 7-13 years old
Museum building
Hosted Visit, open to individuals and small groups: join our popular guided tour of the galleries. Hear an introductory talk and watch the film ‘Poles Apart’.
The programme will start at 1pm, with a look around the Lower Gallery, and follow with a talk and film Poles Apart which is one hour. We will serve afternoon tea at approx. 2.30pm, with free time to wander the exhibits again ands visit the Upper Gallery.
Price is $10 cash per person.
The museum will stay open till 4pm. Morning tea / coffee / biscuits included. Bookings not required.
‘Poles Apart’ (1 hour) tells the poignant story and background of 733 Polish children and 102 adults who came to live in Pahiatua, New Zealand, 1944. These survivors were forcibly deported from Poland to Russia during World War 2 then evacuated to Persia during a short amnesty. They eventually found a home in New Zealand.
A family fun activity, for bookings phone 533 3530 $8 per person starts 2pm and finishes 4pm, 2 hours of craft
- Design your own Polish Easter Egg What is pisanki? It’s a Polish word for…?
- Create an Easter Palm from paper Taste Mazurek, a Polish Easter cake
- What is smingus-dyngus? It’s something fun!
Adults without children are welcome too !
(Please note:Children must be accompanied with an adult)
A family fun activity, for bookings phone 533 3530 $8 per person starts 2pm and finishes 4pm, 2 hours of craft
- Design your own Polish Easter Egg What is pisanki? It’s a Polish word for…?
- Create an Easter Palm from paper Taste Mazurek, a Polish Easter cake
- What is smingus-dyngus? It’s something fun!
Adults without children are welcome too !
(Please note:Children must be accompanied with an adult)