A Visit to the Museum

We are currently studying New Zealand which I imagine will take a few weeks if not longer depending on how sidetracked we get.  As Daddy had the week off work I took advantage of this and got to take Rocket Boy out for some one on one at the Waikato Museum, we visited the Ngaa Pou Whenua exhibition.

"Ngaa Pou Whenua is a modern story of the four iwi of Tainui – Waikato, Pare Hauraki, Raukawa and Maniapoto.  From the mouth of the Waikato River, to the plains of Hauraki; the rolling hills of Raukawa and the valleys of Maniapoto.  Ngaa Pou Whenua is an exhibition of Tainui people and Tainui lands, exploring identity and belonging. See the taonga, listen to the waiata, watch the movie and touch the whakairo, nau mai, haere mai."

   

 

 

We also visited the Never a Dull Moment! Hamilton Stories,  Rocket Boy enjoyed all the interactive displays, dressing up in school boy clothes from over a hundred years ago, and he loved finding all the swords and guns on display. 

Never a Dull Moment! Hamilton Stories takes a fresh look at the tales of Hamilton, and proves history exhibitions can move beyond musty stuff in cases.  Visitors will find it quirky, thought-provoking and entertaining. Never a Dull Moment focuses on four themes covering the period from1864-1945, and key events and personalities from those years. But this is no time line.  Imagine portraits that come to life, listening in on town gossip, or settling into a cinema to find out all about Hamilton’s theatre going past?  Perhaps you’d like to spin the settler ‘wheel of fortune’, or take home a recipe from a war time cook book.  (Economy cake, anyone?).

We will probably visit the Museum again after we've finished our study to see if Rocket Boy understands more of what is on display - and to take Ladybug who was a little gutted to have missed out.