Looking for something magical to do these school holidays? Central Stories Museum & Art Gallery has a fantastic Children’s Holiday Challenge running throughout these school holidays — and there are some amazing prizes up for grabs! We have two exciting Clue Hunts to solve — an Easter Clue Hunt and Read more
For the first time, some of WoolOn’s most extraordinary creations are available for sale — offering collectors a rare opportunity to own a piece of award-winning wearable art, while visitors can experience these iconic garments up close, in the heart of the merino sheep country that inspired them. About the Read more
We’re delighted to welcome one of New Zealand’s most celebrated folk songwriters, Bob McNeill, to Central Stories for a very special solo evening. Saturday 5 December 2026 at 7.30pm. Tickets $25.00 Many folk music fans in the region will know Bob as one half of the acclaimed duo Half Light, Read more
Central Stories is delighted to welcome Roger Lusby for an evening that is part memoir, part performance, and entirely unforgettable. Thursday 16 April, 7–9pm | Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery Fifty-five years ago, a young man from Roxburgh headed south — further south than most people ever go. Roger Read more
Central Stories is delighted to present Collection of Works, an exhibition of paintings by Alexandra artist Jen Anderson, EXTENDED UNTIL 12TH APRIL Jen comes to painting with a remarkable story. The daughter of Douglas Badcock — one of New Zealand’s most celebrated landscape painters, whose luminous Queenstown Lakes works won Read more
Our two beautiful Otago skinks have gone home over winter, back to DOCS. But they will be back, hopefully for the Spring school holidays. Watch this page for updates!!
When an innocuous plastic bag was left at the doorstep of the empty Sir William Bodkin Building in 2002, few could have imagined the mystery hiding inside. Alongside a leather horse rein and gun holster was this well preserved letter from a dying father to his desperate son on the Read more