Work has started on a new museum for Taumarunui.
The Taumarunui Railway Station Museum Building Committee has recently held its first management meeting since the Ruapehu District Council completed successful lease negotiations with KiwiRail to discuss what needs to be done to get the museum open.
Council's chief executive and committee chairman, Clive Manley, said that it was very exciting to be finally starting the process of planning the setup of the museum space.
Mr Manley said the committee had agreed on a theme for the museum, based around Taumarunui's journey through history.
"This will see displays that capture and reflects the township's past from early Maori history, to the river, to rail, to milling, to farming through to tourism and today," he said.