Raglan Museum opens Eva Rickard exhibit

Rickard family members study the exhibit at the opening.
Rickard family members study the exhibit at the opening.

Raglan Museum opened a new exhibition on Saturday 7th March covering Eva Rickard and the Raglan Golf Course Dispute. The core Eva Rickard exhibition was curated by Waikato Museum. It has been supplemented in Raglan by additional items loaned by Rickard family members. It is on loan from Waikato Museum where it was part of Fight the Power: Protest and Change 1970-1990, which was exhibited at Waikato Museum from March 2014 until February 2015. That exhibition examined activism in the Waikato during the 1970s and 1980s. It will be open at Raglan Museum for at least a year.

The exhibit was blessed by kaumatua Sean Ellison and opened by Paddy Kaa. The opening was attended by several members of the Rickard family, Councillor Baddeley and members of the Raglan Museum Society.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *