Ngā wāhine kaipakihi: He tirohanga

Our heritage staff will be available all day to help you research the awesome wāhine in your life and you can make a rosette to commemorate 125 years of women achieving the vote.

Help build artist Viv Davy’s installation by adding your message of peace and equality to doves made from recycled milk bottles.

A pop-up exhibition to mark Suffrage 125. Women in Aotearoa New Zealand won the right to vote 125 years ago. With this exhibition, we honour women who fought, and continue to fight, for gender equality.

It took more than a petition to gain Suffrage for women in Aotearoa. Many of the women who fought for the right to vote, first fought for the right to higher education for young women.

This exhibition marks 125 years since women achieved the right to vote, recalling the events leading up to the 1893 election, and exploring progress and change in the lives of women over 125 years.

Three Suffrage 125 Plaques are being installed to recognise the contributions of important Wellington Women. The first plaque commemorates broadcaster Maud Basham (Aunt Daisy).

There is power in the arts to both influence and inspire. Join Sue Berman and Joanne Graves as they explore ways in which creativity has played a part in the desire for change for women.

A service to give thanks for and to celebrate 125 years of suffrage in New Plymouth and Taranaki with a focus on the suffrage struggles of our local women.

Speeches about the continuing importance of the vote for local women, and the reading of the winning poem(s) from the Lois Middlemiss poetry competition.