David Starkie
North Island ▷ Wellington Region ▷ Wellington ▷
2.5/5
On day of visit it was very crowded and so review is limited particularly to the Gallipoli space.
This had a great deal of interesting material but felt that its flow/structure was not quite right. The strategic context of the campaign should have come at the beginning (and this might also include reference to a large number of French/British troops involved with a commensurate number of casualties. (My own view for what it is worth is that the Anzacs coming of age was not Gallipoli but the Boer War; see for example War Memorial in Palmerston). However, we would emphasise that we did not get to see much of the rest of the Museum.