Thursday, September 11, 2008

Trip to Auckland Museum


It was a wet Saturday and Joe and dad decided to pay a visit to the museum. Joe loves the museum and has some particular favourite rooms. One is the volcano room. We had to wait for a while in the car until 10.00am which was when it opened.


Joe outside Auckland War memorial museum waiting for it to open.


Prow of a very long Maori canoe.



There is a great collection of Micronesian and Polynesian carving which Dad (Ken) was very keen on when he was here in 2002, and he did quite a few drawings of these small carved figures during several visits to the museum.


Once in Joe's favourite room we were able to see this cast of one of the incinerated victims from Pompeii and a drawing of the earth with Magma inside the earth bursting up in the form of volcanoes.