June 22, 2023
Animation on cards for NZ Wars museum
Māori historian Buddy Mikaere is on a study trip in the United States looking at how museums there tell the story of the American Civil War.
The Tauranga kaumatua wants ideas on exhibits for the New Zealand Wars Centre which will be built on the site of the Battle of Pukehinahina-Gate Pa.
He says Aotearoa New Zealand already seems ahead.
“Of anybody’s been to the Gallipoli exhibition at Te Papa in Wellington and seen what Weta studios have done there, as an example of how you might animate our military history that might be the way you go. So I’m looking for other things on top of that, I think,” Mr Mikaere says.
He says Weta Workshop and Sir Ian Taylor’s Animation Research have both expressed interest in being involved in the Tauranga project, which is working towards the resource consent and funding stages.