Gallipoli exhibition
Giant figures.
Phillip Capper — CC BY 2.0 · Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Pierre André Leclercq — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Daderot — CC0
New Zealand's national museum, opened in 1998 in a huge building on the waterfront of the capital, Wellington. Its Māori name means the treasure box, and it welcomes more than a million visitors a year. The museum brings together art, history, nature and Māori culture in a modern interactive way: a colourful carved contemporary Māori meeting house, volcano and earthquake galleries with a house that shakes to simulate a quake, and the colossal squid, the world's largest invertebrate, preserved in a tank. One of its best-known exhibitions covers the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War, with giant human figures made by the effects studio behind The Lord of the Rings, telling soldiers' stories in moving detail. Entry is free for New Zealand residents, with a fee of about NZ$35 for international visitors, per visitor guides. Allow at least half a day; it is ideal on Wellington's windy days.
Giant figures.
It shakes.
Māori art.
Cable Street, Wellington waterfront
No, international visitors now pay about NZ$35, while New Zealand residents enter free, per visitor guides.
