More Wellington

Wellington is a very cultural city geared for tourism with several museums, galleries, theatres, cinemas and many restaurants and night spots. It’s become a popular place to film movies because of the tax incentives that film companies receive. On the first rainy day, we spent an entire day exploring the spectacular bicultural Ta Papua National Museum which had the Marori history, immigrant history, farming, natural science, geology and more. There were movies to watch, sound recordings to listen to, artefacts to touch, Marori buildings to go into, earthquake simulations to experience, iron rich rocks from deep underground to lift, whale skeletons swimming in seas of neon light to marvel at, a smorgasbord of stuffed animals and pinned insects to gawk at, and so many more bells and whistles and things that go “Pop” and Wiz” we were bedazzled.