More than $1200 has been raised for the Palmerston museum from two events.
Museum committee chairman Chris Cox said the money would go towards the purchase of a new museum building in Sanday St.
On Friday, 35 people listened to Lyric Jam, which featured folk guitarist Neil Copeland, of Dunedin, and poets Nick Guyan, of Karitane, and Greg O'Connell, of Greymouth.
Last month, 85 people attended Herbert woman Marise Martin's production A Victorian Domestic Goddess Takes a Husband.
A Christmas debate is planned for December 11.
Waitaki District Mayor Alex Familton, Cr Jim Hopkins and Waitaki MP Waitaki Jacqui Dean will debate Palmerston bookseller Jim Moffat, businesswoman Maria Hinkley and journalist Dena Henderson.
