Having been to Gallipoli and many other WWI sites, we wanted to see Te Papa's current temporary exhibit, "Gallipoli: The Scale Of Our War," put together largely with monumental and monumentally impressive exhibits by Weta. The scale of Commonwealth participation, and sacrifice, in the World Wars is often not fully appreciated. (Ask me about Dieppe).
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By no means our first visit to Te Papa Tongarewa, the wonderful
national museum |
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The central exhibits are 3x-4x life-sized and the most convincingly
life-like I have ever seen |
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| All based on the experiences of 8 individuals |
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| All kinds of subsidiary exhibits, artifacts |
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| Understandably, very little from the Turkish side |
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| Trench warfare... |
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| Model of an NZ fort |
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An NZ nurse learns that her brother has been killed
ashore |
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A respectful note from Ataturk; when we were at Gallipoli,
there were numerous visitors from Australia and New Zealand
at the battle sites and cemeteries |
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Gallipoli, with its 500,000 casualties, was a mere skirmish by
WWI standards; the Kiwis who survived were then shipped off
to France and Belgium to an even worse hell |
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| Flanders Fields... |
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An eloquent evocation of the fact that the Maori were a large
part of NZ's WWI effort; they argued that effort could not be
considered national unless they were part of it |
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Hard to believe. Wow!
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