To ensure the continued survival and ongoing management of the Porirua Hospital
Museum in the immediate future and to promote its further development as a place for recording
the past and responding to new material, fresh insights, identified needs for information/education
and helping to shape a better future for people with mental and other health problems through:
- provision of informative and educational displays for the general public and for students in health and relevant services at all levels;
- maintenance, as far as possible, of the Porirua Hospital Museum buildings and the site on which they stand.
- maintenance of relationships with the Porirua City Council, local Iwi, Museum of NZ, other relevant museums, and health agencies including the Ministry of Health in the pursuit of these objectives;
- depiction of the history of mental health services locally, in NZ and internationally;
- presentation of history of the hospital, and its antecedents, and its place in the development of Porirua City;
- collection, preservation and presentation of materials of relevance to past history and present developments in mental health services;
- access to information about key developments in mental health;
- promotion of understanding of mental health and services for those with mental illness and disability including reassurance, reduction of stigmatisation;
- provision of information for the purposes of research;