The Central Otago Museums Trust was established in 2021 to bring together and promote the network of the five public Central Otago museums to the wider community. The museums are:

• Cromwell

• Clyde

• Central Stories, Alexandra

• Teviot District, Roxburgh

• Maniototo Early Settlers, Naseby

The Central Otago District Museum Strategy, provides a platform to guide Museums Trust’s  programme of work. This emphasises the advantages of collaboration from sharing resources such as people, skills, funds and knowledge to enhancing and creating new opportunities for curation, exhibitions, events and public programmes including education. The independence of  each of our five Central Otago museums is important, and integral to achieving the aims in the strategy. Together we will search for ways to deliver an improved visitor experience across the district.