Hawke's Bay Museum

We visited the Hawke's Bay Museum as well, which had some great and not-so-great exhibitions. Among the former was the display about the earthquake, with video interviews with survivors and footage of the devastation caused. It definitely made me hope that 'the big one' doesn't hit Wellington any time soon. More recently, it looks as if Gisborne got off comparatively lightly in the 6.8 earthquake a few days ago. There was also a fabulous exhibition of prints, paintings and carpets (!) by Don Ramage called 'Steel Jungle'. I recommend this one if you get a chance to see it. There was also a collection of household objects 'through the years' display, which gathered objects like vacuum cleaners, typewriters, phones and so on from each decade since 1900. Settler William Colenso's printing press was also on display. Perhaps less well thought out was the 'display' of 1999-2005 cyperpunk. Sounds interesting but really wasn't. Basically, there were 5 mannequins dressed in OTT rave outfits from the likes of Cyberdog in Camden Market: it looked like a couple of people returning from their OE donated a couple of outfits and that was pretty much it. And some trance music was playing from one-set of headphones. The two photos here represent two-fifths of the exhibition!