News & Project Updates

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.

Alors que les commémorations de l’Anzac Day ont fait vibrer les rues du Quesnoy ce samedi, on en sait un peu plus sur le futur musée néo-zélandais. Installé dans l’ex-gendarmerie, il devrait livrer ses premières expositions immersives, entre sons et lumières, début 2023.

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.

The scene of New Zealand’s last major action in World War I will become a living memorial to those involved, and the nation’s wartime legacy.

A 19th Century mansion in the northern French town of Le Quesnoy will become a museum and visitor centre that will tell the story of the Kiwi diggers who scaled the ancient walls with a ladder to liberate the town.

The scene of New Zealand’s last major action in World War I will become a living memorial to those involved, and the nation’s wartime legacy. A 19th Century mansion in the northern French town of Le Quesnoy will become a museum and visitor centre that will tell the story of the Kiwi diggers who scaled the ancient walls with a ladder to liberate the town.

Wētā Workshop is embarking on its latest venture, bringing to life a pivotal moment in New Zealand’s WWI history thousands of kilometres away from Wellington in a small French town, Le Quesnoy.

Opening to the public in a phased manner from ANZAC Day 2023, the living memorial museum and visitor centre will honour New Zealand’s WWI history.

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed this week by the Returned and Services Association (RSA) and its French equivalent, Union Nationale des Combattants (UNC).

The ceremony took place in Cambridge.