museum trip

Did you know we went to the museum last week  it was cool we got to get welcomed to the museum . Did you know we got to explore the whole museum. The cool part is when we get to go in the earthquake house and the house shake's here is some fact's about the museum Auckland War Memorial Museum stands on the hill known by Māori as Pukekawa.

It has occupied this site since 1929 when subscriptions raised by Aucklanders in remembrance of their war dead and enabled the construction of what is considered one of New Zealand’'s finest heritage buildings.

To this day, Auckland War Memorial Museum is a touchstone of remembrance for families and returned service personnel who wish to honour their loved ones and fallen comrades.  

 1929, Auckland Museum occupied premises in central Auckland, beginning life in a two-room farm cottage in the suburb of Grafton.  With one room for the Museum’'s fledgling collections and one room for the curator, New Zealand’'s first Museum soon outgrew this site, relocating to what was the Provincial Council Building in 1867 before moving once again to the old Post Office building in Princes Street three years later.

The Museum'’s first custom-built premises, to which it moved in 1876, were just along the road on Princes Street.  Under the guidance of the visionary curator, Thomas Cheeseman, the Museum and its collections flourished, necessitating a further move and the commissioning of a world-wide architectural competition to design a new Museum for Auckland which would be combined with a war memorial to commemorate soldiers lost in World War I.