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Kate Sheppard House of “plots and schemes” opens as a public museum
The Ilam house where pioneering suffragist Kate Sheppard lived and worked during her years of activism has been officially opened by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today.
The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hopes the house will be an ongoing source of inspiration into the future and a place for “scheming and plotting”.
In a partnership between UC and Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, it will also be used a base for collaboration, teaching and academic research.
Now named Te Whare Waiutuutu Kate Sheppard House, in the late 19th century the domestic setting became the hub of a political campaign to secure the right for New Zealand women to vote.
The Category 1-listed house was purchased by the Government last year after being in private ownership.
Ms Ardern said many New Zealanders would have a connection to the house through relatives who were among the tens of thousands of people who signed the 1893 petition for women’s suffrage that was pasted together in its front room.
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