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Last month I posted photos from From the Te Papa exhibition :Gallipoli:The Scale Of Our War.
During our stay in Wellington we also visited The Great War Exhibition, created by Sir Peter Jackson,in the Great Hall of Wellington's historic Dominion Museum. One of the main reasons he undertook the project was to tell the story of the Great War to younger generations. His exhibition tells the story of World War 1 from its pre-1914 origins to the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, honouring the role many Kiwis played. It was a $10 million project, many of the exhibits being from Peter Jackson's personal collection. It will run until the centenary of Armistice Day in 2018. "It's not an anti-war museum, it's certainly not a glorifying war museum. It is just showing the reality," Jackson said.

This was a display at the end of the exhibition 'journey' which I found especially moving, and I thought would be appropriate for ANZAC Day.
An original World War I recruiting poster showing a row of smiling soldiers is the the top of background. The figures looked so life-like I expected them to move.