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Whanganui Regional Museum

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Whanganui Regional Museum
Founded in 1892, this regional museum with a gift shop includes exhibits on natural & human history.
Address: 4 Watt Street, Whanganui 4500, New Zealand
Phone: 06 349 1110
State: Manawatū-Whanganui
City: Whanganui
Zip Code: 4500


Opening Hours

Monday: 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Friday: 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Sunday: 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM

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The staff at the museum were very friendly and gave me a brochure, reminding me that photography is not allowed in certain areas. I spent about an hour exploring and learned a bit about the historical development of Whanganui. It was so quiet that it was easy to get immersed in it.
This is a fantastic museum. The main caveat is that their Davis theatre is always freezing in the winter, early spring, or late autumn, even though they put in a new heater. It would be wonderful if they would put a normal thermostat in, instead of a switch and keep it at 20° -21 The WHO recommends the temperature of 20 C to be a minimum for people over 65 - which tends to be a large block of the audience. My friend brought in a small thermometer and recorded about 18 degrees on the bottom seats. Instead, we have an archaic system of simply turning the switch on or off with no ability to set or change the thermostat.nnOf the six times that I have attended in the last few winter months, the temperature has been going on for preheating the theatre, and maybe it's getting a tad too hot for some sitting on upper seats. They then complain to the host. The host then turns it off, and then the temperature continues to drop throughout the movie or lecture until it is unbearable for those in the bottom rows.nnI've been to similar lecture theatres in about a dozen countries, but I have never been to one so cold as this one. So we hardly go to it anymore for this reason. Yes, it can be a bit hotter on the top rows in the bottom rows but one can take off their jersey in the top row if too warm.
This a great museum with awesome displays of many New Zealand Historical items and events. The displays were well laid out and the explanations were excellent. It would be one of the best museums I have visited in New Zealand.nnThe staff at reception were most helpful and very polite. They answered all my questions and helped to make my visit very worth while.
If you like museums, this one is definitely a great one. Free admission, donation optional. The Maori exhibit is fascinating and educational. I especially enjoyed the area devoted to bird species.
NASA announced that organic molecules have been found on Mars. Organic molecules are the key building blocks of life on Earth.nnIt is theorized that life on earth got kick started from the arrival of meteorites.nnThe Mokoia meteorite in the Whanganui Regional Museum collection is made of carbonaceous chondrite, the rarest of all meteor types.nnCarbonaceous chondrite is mainly composed of carbon: the atom that defines organic molecules.nnIt has been dated as 4.57 billion years, which makes it the oldest known material in the solar system. Larger bodies like planets and meteorites started forming 10-50 million years later.nnIt is of such significance, that fragments of the specimen are now held in the University of New Mexico, the American Museum of Natural History, the Natural History Museum in London, Arizona State University and The Field Museum in Chicago, the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris and the Geological Survey of India in Calcutta among others.nnScience is about collaboration which allows scientists to combine their knowledge and resources to form new ideas and make breakthroughs, that might not have been possible by working alone.nnIt is a fantastic museum, well worth visiting. Darwin would be proud.nnDuring his stay in New Zealand Darwin collected insects, shells, fish, rocks and a gecko. His detailed observations were carefully recorded in his journal of the Beagle expedition, which was published to much acclaim in 1839. He later wrote that the voyage had been ‘by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career.’nnIn 1871 Darwin published The Descent of Man, which argued that human beings shared a recent common ancestor with the great African apes.
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