Welcome to Broadgreen House
Broadgreen 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 House to experience a family home from yesteryear (1853 to 1961).
Broadgreen House is also home to one of the country's most significant historic clothing and textile collections.
Broadgreen House is also home to one of the country's most significant historic clothing and textile collections.
Broadgreen House, is located at 276 Nayland Road, Stoke, Nelson. 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 House.
Learn about the history of Broadgreen House, built in 1855, and meet the two families who lived there during the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
Broadgreen House is home to one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most significant historic clothing and textile collections.
Find out more about Broadgreen's activities for children.
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 House features antique furniture and many objects of yesteryear.
- CURRENT EXHIBITIONThe Garden of Time: Florals, Fashion, and the Home.
Step into a world where nature and style entwine in The Garden of Time.
Explore the elegant rooms of Broadgreen and uncover how gardens have ignited creativity and infused elegance in both fashion and interior decoration.
Don't miss the opportunity to experience the world in full bloom.
The Garden of Time closes mid-April 2026. - 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.