From left, Mayor Susan O’Regan, New Zealand Memorial Museum Trust chair Sir Don McKinnon, deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk and Cambridge Community Board chair Jo Davies-Colley.
A delegation from Waipā was in Auckland this week to hear more about new links with Cambridge’s sister city Le Quesnoy.
Wētā Workshop will open an exhibition in the town which was liberated at the end of World War I by New Zealand soldiers seven days before the Armistice. The town, near the Belgium border, had been occupied by the Germans at the start of the war.
The timing this week was no coincidence – Anzac Day is marked with a procession through Le Quesnoy. The announcement was made by the New Zealand Memorial Museum Trust and Wētā and the exhibition is expected to open on Anzac Day 2024.
The exhibition will be housed in the Le Quesnoy Living Museum, which is an 1890s mansion in the centre of the town, now called Te Arawhata.
This week’s presentation in Auckland featured Weta Workshop senior creative director Andrew Thomas and live from Le Quesnoy, its mayor Marie-Sophie Lesne.
The Wētā exhibition will feature giant sized models similar to those at Te Papa.
See: Off to Le Quesnoy
New Zealand Liberation Museum Te Arawhata
