Trip to the Auckland Museum

Trip to the Auckland Museum

On Tuesday the 28th of October Year 7’s went to the Auckland Museum. When we went to the Auckland Museum when we entered the first thing we saw was the 2 Maori leaders about to greet the international visitors.

When we were all settled  in the museum, this lady talked to us about the rules. After the lady went we had to go to the Kai room and eat our morning tea. After that we had to go in our groups then we had to go into the gallerie’s. The First Gallerie that we went into we were looking at  olden day cloths and what they were wearing and what kind of furniture they had.

The Second Gallery was The Maori Gallery The first thing you see when you step into the Maori Gallery you can see a big Waka and heap’s of Maori weapons that they use in the war. Out task was to sketch a pattern and we had to sketch a Harakeke made out of flax. At the entry of the Maori gallery we went into a Whare and there was a construction site in the middle. Some of the kids were sketching some of the patterns and some of them were sketching out side. When my group entered

The Gallery that we went after the Maori gallery. My group went to the pacific Gallery. when we went into the pacific gallery we could see Weapons, tapas, traditional cloths and we saw the islands culture and what kind of dance they do. In the pacific gallery there would be more than one traditional mats. In the Pacific Gallery the Islands shown on the floor there were Tonga, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands and Papua new Guinea and many more.

After all the gallery’s that we had went into the sea life and looked at sharks, dolphins and fishes and more. Then we took the photos of students with sharks fishes and dolphins. Then when we went into the Volcano Part of the Museum then when we looked at what happens after a volcano is done erupting. When we were looking around we saw this sculpture, The sculpture that we were looking at a person filled in ashes praying before he was going to die.

After we looked around we went into this house that had a movie in it, when we went in there we had to sit down anywhere it looked like a real house but when we looked at the front of us we saw a window and the view of Mission bay. Then when we were all settled in, the new turned on then the massive explosion started and the room shock and it was really loud and one of the girls in my group fell because she was really scared.

When we were finished from visiting the other galleries we had to go back to have our lunch. While we were still arriving to the entrance of the museum to have lunch we went past the Pacific Gallery, The Maori Gallery and The olden day stuff. After our lunch we had to go out side of the museum and do a task that Mrs Lagitupu gave us. Mrs Lagitupu gave us a piece of paper which had instructions on it cause every group had an Ipad and a Iphone.

On the piece of paper it had a task to take photos of different stuff. On the piece of paper it said to take five close up photos of a flower, five photos of an interesting tree from five different angles, four photos of a bird close up, five photos of interesting photos of water and Many more cool task.

The Auckland Museum is very inspiring. We learnt how to do art and Patterns how we do the outlines and the patterns in side of the tapas.