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The Wētā Workshop team behind Te Papa’s Gallipoli exhibit are busy at work on flowers and figurines for a new museum in the north of France.

On Thursday’s show (Bastille Day – with Ro hosting from home with the ‘Rona and Jamie off playing golf), Jamie left a pre-recorded chat with Sir Don McKinnon to play and the feedback was incredible! Sir Don, a legend of NZ politics (Deputy PM 1990-96), was making his way to France to help raise awareness […]

There was some exciting news out over the weekend to mark ANZAC day. Weta Workshop has teamed up with the New Zealand Memorial Museum Trust – Le Quesnoy to re-create a pivotal moment in our WW1 history – in Le Quesnoy itself. The project will be a living memorial museum and visitor centre to honour […]

Cambridge’s French partner town Le Quesnoy is set to receive a new visitor experience next year with a museum dedicated to the liberation of the town by New Zealand soldiers in 1918.

Wētā Workshop is turning its hand from Hollywood blockbusters to recreating one of New Zealand’s most famous victories of WWI. It’s designing a living memorial in Le Quesnoy where Kiwi troops liberated the northern French town from the Germans in late 1918.

The story of how a New Zealand batallion liberated the small French town of Le Quesnoy from German occupation in 1918, using ladders to scale the fortress walls, is still celebrated in France, and now Weta are building a memorial.

Weta Workshop has signed on to bring a piece of New Zealand’s World War One history alive.  The project is a memorial museum and visitor centre, in the small French town Le Quesnoy. 

Wētā Workshop is to open an ambitious new exhibition next year in the battlegrounds of the First World War. The Wellington-based special effects firm is heading to the fields of France outside the town of Le Quesnoy, in the footsteps of New Zealand’s WWI contingent.

Wētā Workshop ouvrira l’année prochaine une nouvelle exposition ambitieuse sur les champs de bataille de la Première Guerre mondiale. La société d’effets spéciaux basée à Wellington se dirige vers les champs de France à l’extérieur de la ville de Le Quesnoy, sur les traces du contingent néo-zélandais de la Première Guerre mondiale.