Modelled on, but very different from, the highly prestigious Museum of Jurassic Technology, in Los Angeles, California, the Museum of True History, (known affectionately as MOTH by collection enthusiasts and museum professionals alike), is a humble but by no means diminutive example of traditions of collecting dating back over five centuries. It is not the first institution of its kind to inhabit the sometimes obtuse eclecticism of the private collection. However, MOTH does negotiate the relatively unbroken ground of the antipodean lifestyle in all of its normalised, contradictory and highly inoffensive splendour.
The Museum of True History is based geographically at undisclosed premises throughout New Zealand and only occasionally makes its collections available to the public. It is primarily an educational institution dedicated to the pursuit of truth through the study of existence via the presentation of various materials from antipodean history. The Museum of True History serves dual functions. On the one hand it provides the academic community with a specialised repository for relics and artefacts from the antipodes, with an emphasis on those that illustrate the advancement of ontological ideals. On the other hand the museum serves the general public by providing displays which focus attention on the unknown, rarely viewed or the seldom seen.
The Museum of True History has a vast array of collections for your enjoyment. They cover all of the prescriptive relationships of artificia and naturalia associated with the private collections and Wunderkammen of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, however MOTH also endeavours to step outside of these often limiting parameters to present the stuff of everyday life.
