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Tawhiti Museum

401 Ohangai Rd, Hawera
12 votes
$3 to $15

Widely acclaimed as the best private museum in the country, the museum uses life size exhibits and scale models to present our heritage in a series of super realistic and engaging displays. 

All these displays are designed and built on the premises in the 'Body Shop' and accompanying studios, which can be viewed as part of a museum visit. 

The museum uses life size exhibits and scale models to capture the past in a series of super- realistic displays. All the displays - including the life size figures created from moulds cast from real people - are designed and built on the premises. In fact the 'body shop' - a series of three studios viewed as part of the museum visit - is Nigel's workshop where both scale model 'dioramas' and all the life size figures are built. Friends, relatives and local people have been coerced into allowing a casting to be made from their features - creating the very real images that have become a trademark of the Tawhiti Museum.

Now with seven separate tourism awards to it credit, the museum has become an important visitor attraction for South Taranaki as well as a valued educational facility. 

 

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