A New School Year

It's the start of a new school year and Ag Heritage is looking forward to hosting schools from all over the North Island. The museum here at Mystery Creek is set up to help school children and others understand the history of agriculture in New Zealand and how people lived in the early days.

We are planning a new section to Ag Heritage- SHEEP&BEEF FARMING. Our plan is to relocate a wool shed on to the museum property to house this new section of the museum. The wool shed will be used to explain the history of both of these very important industries through interactive and static displays.

This is the third year that Fonterra has offered to help visiting schools pay for their bus transportation to the Agricultural Heritage Museum. Many schools have taken up this offer and tell us they would not have been able to visit the museum with out Fonterra's help. All of the schools that have visited have written letters to Fonterra thanking them. We have been impressed with the drawings the visiting school children have sent to us and have mounted many of them on the walls of the museum.

So- another year and we are looking forward to it. With Fonterra's help we are sure that we will have another record year for attendance by visiting schools. Don't miss out- come out to Ag Heritage Museum on the grounds of NZ National Fieldays at Mystery Creek in Hamilton.

By the way, schools aren't our only customers. Any group of 10 or more people can visit the Agricultural Heritage Museum by reservation. Give us a call to set up a time for your groups visit.

Call Terry Harpe 07-843-7990 or email terryh@mysterycreek.co.nz