Welcome to Broadgreen Historic House
Broadgreen Historic House in Whakatū Nelson, located in Te Tauihu, the top of Aotearoa New Zealand's South Island, gives you the chance to step back in time. Visit Broadgreen Historic House to experience a family home from yesteryear (1853 to 1961).
Broadgreen Historic House is also home to one of the country's most significant historic clothing and textile collections.
Broadgreen Historic House is also home to one of the country's most significant historic clothing and textile collections.
Broadgreen Historic House, located at 276 Nayland Road, Stoke, is open every day (except Good Friday, Christmas Day & Anzac Day morning), from 11am - 4.30pm (October to May) and 12pm - 3pm (May to September). Visit for an experience that provides the opportunity to move among the past and see and feel how people lived in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
Find out more about Taonga Tuku Iho, Nelson’s heritage strategy, and meet the heritage specialists who work at Broadgreen Historic House.
Learn about the history of Broadgreen Historic House, built in 1855, and meet the two families who lived there during the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
Broadgreen Historic House is home to one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most significant historic clothing and textile collections.
Find out more about The Box Room, Textile Kids and our school holiday programme.
The House Collection features furniture, wooden objects and household items.
Collection highlights
As well as one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most significant historic clothing and textile costume collections, Broadgreen Historic House features antique furniture and many objects of yesteryear.
- CURRENT EXHIBITIONFatal Fashion: Dangerous Dress and Injurious Attire
From dangerous dyes to flaming fabrics, awful injuries and disease; the litany of loss in our quest for following fashion is long and lethal, and not just to humans.
Visit Broadgreen House to see our latest exhibition and explore some horrendous histories of how fashion has slain and maimed through time (plus a few other grisly Victorian hazards!)
30 March 2024 - 1 December 2024 - EXQUISITE EMBROIDERYThe historic Clothing & Textiles collection not only features women's gowns but also this fine example of a 19th century men's smock, and many other decorative pieces.
- THE SHEER GOWNThe Sheer Gown, a full-length sleeveless 1950s ball gown with horizontal pleats and matching fabric cummerbund, did not arrive with any provenance, so it was used to inspire writers in the 2022 Secret Lives Short Story Competition.
- MAHOGANY WRITING TABLE
This solid mahogany writing table was bequeathed to Broadgreen by Mrs Isabella Kain in 1993, on behalf of her husband Mr Leonard Bond Kain, after it was first purchased by the family in 1855.
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