Charlotte Museum Trust

The Charlotte Museum Trust collects and preserves artefacts of lesbian culture such as labrys, music, theatre, film, literature, art and other memorabilia from early lesbian life in New Zealand / Aotearoa. Currently we have a collection of 127 lesbian cultural artifacts: Labrys (in bone, glass and silver), domestic ware, lesbian ceramics, 1700 lesbian books and many of the early magazines from both New Zealand and overseas.

Location: 7a 43a Linwood Ave
Western Springs (off St Lukes Road from MOTAT)
The Charlotte Museum is open Wednesday 12pm-4pm and Sunday 1pm-4pm

• LEZZIE TUNES
  
  Listen to lesbian music on vinyl on the last Friday of the month at the Charlotte Museum 5.30 - 7.30pm
  
  Listen again (or for the first time!) to New Zealand and international music that NZ lesbians listened to in the 1970s and 1980s.
  
  Feel free to bring your own LPs to share
  Koha, Finger food, Beverages
  
  25 June, 30 July, 27 August 2010.
  
  
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  NB The Charlotte Museum is funded by Lotteries Community, ASBCT, Lion Foundation, COGS and Trusts Charitable.

Please consider becoming a Friend of Charlotte Museum less than $5 per month

You can view some of the museum artifacts on Charlotte Museum through NZMuseums on-line

Further information Ph 846 5327 or email: charlottemuseum@gmail.com

Opportunity for museum studies

We have free student places available for any lesbians who are interested in preserving our herstory and wish to do the Museum Standards certification. It is not arduous and can be done around other commitments - no deadlines in this course! The practical components of the course can be carried out at Charlotte.

Charlotte Museum shop

The Museum Shop has a range of lavender products, CD's, snake Goddess, T-shirts and memorabilia. We can do mail order if you email us at charlottemuseum@gmail.com

We have available: Catalogue of the Heritage Exhibition on Early Lesbian Theatre
Jo Mears theatrical photography: A Girls Night Out: we have one of Jo Mears mannequins for sale for $500, of which $100 goes to the museum.

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The Charlotte Museum has received it first bequest, from the Bronwen Dean estate. This has enabled us to install the Bronwen Dean Oral Herstory Listening Post, for listening to our own recordings made by Vita, the Charlotte Museum Lesbian Oral Herstory Recording Group.

All donations are fully tax deductible.

We have black T-shirts with our logo for a $35 donation as a fund raiser - email charlottemuseum@gmail.com or send cheque to:
  The Charlotte Museum Trust,
  PO Box 47 398,
  Ponsonby,
  Auckland 1144