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ANZAC Events 2011
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| 6am | Dawn Commemorative Service, Court of Honour. |
| 6.45am | Museum opens to the public. |
| 6.45am – 5pm |
Research the Cenotaph Database, Armoury Information Centre Slideshows from the Collections, Information Centres Sign the Digital Book of Remembrance, Grand Foyer and Atrium. |
| 6.45am – 10am | Identification of medals and badges, Armoury Information Centre. |
| 7.30am & 9.30am | Performance by the Auckland Youth Choir, World War I Sanctuary. |
| 11am | Civic Commemorative Service, Court of Honour. |
| Noon, 1pm, 2pm & 3pm | Unaccompanied Minors, 40-minute children’s programme, Atrium. |
| Noon – 4.30pm | Kids’ Poppy Making, Stevenson Discovery Centre. |
| Noon – 4.30pm | Identification of medals and badges, Armoury Information Centre. |
| 12.30pm | M*lasses sing the songs of the Andrews Sisters, Atrium. |
| 1pm | Lest We Forget Poetry Competition: Straight from the Heart finalist readings, Hall of Memories. |
FRIDAY 22 —SUNDAY 24 APRIL
7.30PM-10PM
Northern Façade | FREE
Anzac Day commemorates fallen New Zealanders in all conflicts that our country has been involved in overseas. This year, Auckland War Memorial Museum’s projections focus on the contributions of women in the Second World War.
Over three nights leading up to ANZAC Day visitors are invited to watch a 25-minute film especially edited by celebrated film-maker Gaylene Preston that will be projected onto the Museum from the steps of the Cenotaph and Court of Honour. Crowds of women on the wharves farewelling their men: last embraces, fervent kisses, hands extended through the barriers for a final caress. Director Gaylene Preston begins her never-before-seen footage with the women watching their brothers, sons, husbands and fathers go to war before skilfully taking us through the new world that faced women during WWII as they held their families together, coped with strict rations and stepped into the breach left by the men that had gone to fight.
On Friday and Sunday evenings, visitors will then be invited to come inside the Museum to sign a digital Book of Remembrance and look up relatives' war records on the Museum's Cenotaph Database.
HOURLY FROM 7.30AM – 3.30PM
On Anzac Day the Museum is providing free 45-minute guided tours of the war memorial galleries. Tours leave from the Museum Armoury.
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The Museum Dome, not normally open to the public, will also be open on Anzac Day between 2pm-4pm – join our guides to see one of very few 360° views of Auckland City.
On Now
The exhibition Mr. Jones’ Wives in the Pictorial Gallery tells war brides’ stories, from the love letters that kept romance alive during the uncertain days of war, to the voyage out onboard ‘bride ships’ and the experience of settling in a new land far from home. More »
ANZAC DAY - 25 APRIL, 12PM, 1PM, 2PM & 3PM
MON-FRI - 18 - 29 APRIL, 10.30AM, 11.30AM & 12.30PM
What would it be like to leave your home and travel all the way across the world to a strange country? Lots of women married New Zealand men who were stationed in their countries during World War II, and then joined them in New Zealand when the war was over. Find out what it felt like to be a child of these wartime parents when you become an Unaccompanied Minor. Travel from England under the kindly care of our Nanny Gilbert. Decide what to take, what to leave behind and take the epic journey to Aotearoa, your new home. More »
This year, our Lest We Forget Poetry Competition will focus on love letters – letters that sustained both men in the front line and women on the home front; letters from parents, children and spouses. What would you need to say to a loved one who was far away and in peril? And what words would the mother and children at home need to hear to calm their anxious hearts. Submissions close 20 April. A selection of poems will be chosen to be read on Anzac Day in the Hall of Memories at 1pm. More »
DAILY, 15 APR – 2 MAY
SAT & SUN, 2 – 10 APR & 7 – 29 MAY
10.30AM – 12 NOON & 1.30 – 3PM
Discover some of the stories about comradery and loyalty in wartime – then make something to remember them by.
Weird & Wonderful. Gold coin entry.
Kids' poppy making
ANZAC Day, 12pm - 4.30pm
Come and join us in the Weird & Wonderful gallery designed especially for families. Our gallery encourages families to explore, look, touch, listen and learn all about the natural world. Kids can join in with our 10-minute “roll in, roll out” craft activities every day during holidays and every weekend throughout the year. More »
This year’s season of LATE at the Museum sees us respond to topical issues and collection and exhibition themes. The LATE 2011 season will run on the first Thursday of the month from April 7 to October 6.
JAY M. WINTER: THE LOST GENERATION
Thurs 5 MAY, 6.30pm
Jay M. Winter, the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale, is considered one of the world’s foremost specialists on World War I and its impact on the 20th century. He will deliver a lecture on the use of the phrase “The Lost Generation” and the language associated with the thousands of men who lost their lives – how it is applied, and, in using it, what emotions are evoked? University of Auckland’s Seelye Charitable Trust Fellow, Winter says that almost a century on, the evocation of a Lost Generation still has significant power. More »
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