Shear Discovery New Zealand has a number of permanent exhibitions and regular special exhibits.

Visitors to the museum will experience the ambience of an historic woolshed, coming face to face with virtual shearers, hearing their yarns and their jargon, handling the wool and the shearing equipment, appreciating the 160 year history and the processes that follow the shearing to produce the huge variety of wool products tha thave made New Zealand an internationally significant wool industry.

Shear Discovery New Zealand is housed in two historic woolsheds that were removed from the original locations and trucked to downtown Masterton.

Displays in the Glendonald Woolshed

This woolshed was built in 1903 for the 20,000 acre Glendonald Station in Bideford to north east of Masterton

Displays include:

Golden Shears Open Champions Hall of Fame World Shearing Records New Zealand Woolboard New Zealand Shearer Training Trethwey Statue of "Shearer and Ram" Godfrey Bowen Transport of Wool Shears Union beginings Historic Station "Working" shearing board Products produced from Sheep

Displays in the Roselea Woolshed

This woolshed was built by Bob Wilton in 1892 for his 400 acre at Rangitumau to north of Masterton

Displays include:

Handpieces Woolpresses Static Sheep displays Pioneer Timber displays Various forms of machinery Live shearing with original shearing plant Musterers hut from 1860 era