Charlotte Museum Trust
The Charlotte Museum Trust is a non-profit charitable trust whose primary objective is to collect and preserve objects, artifacts and material from Aotearoa's historic lesbian communities and the lesbian cultural experience for the benefit and understanding of future generations.
We aim to:
- preserve lesbian culture by way of the classification and collection of lesbian cultural material with a special emphasis on objects
- display documented lesbian cultural material in a suitable venue
- advocate for lesbian culture by networking with other overseas lesbian archives and museums
- establish the Charlotte Museum in a permanent home with staff and regular opening times
- continue to grow our research library and archive, particularly our reference books, queer lesbian publication, periodicals and journals produced in Aotearoa or that have Aotearoa content and research papers, doctorates, thesis that have queer lesbian content relevant to the Aotearoa experience.
- enable our reference library and archive to be used, particularly for research of topics that relate too Aotearoa's queer lesbian communities and cultural experience.
Contact Details
PO Box 47398, Ponsonby, Auckland 1144
64-9-550 7403
We have staff available during opening hours and currently have a part time coordinator and collection support working during the week.
Visitor Information
8a Bentinck Street, New Lynn, Auckland
Monday 10am - 2am; Wednesday 11am - 4pm and Sunday 1pm - 4pm. We can open at other times so please ring if our opening hours are unsuitable.
Free, Koha appreciated
Facilities
Reference library
Shop
Guided tour
Public programmes
Membership club
Toilets
Other Facilities
We have events such as exhibitions, guest speakers, creative workshops and activities that run outside our usual opening hours. We offer a tour and talk about our collection that can be booked and we often have secondary and tertiary student groups.Search Charlotte Museum's Collection
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