Focusing on all nationalities other than Maori, this important exhibition presents the objects and ideas the migrants brought with them and examines how they adjusted to the new land. As a visitor to this exhibition, you will embark on your own dynamic, interactive journey of discovery. Collect a passport on entry to the exhibition, and get involved in the great personal stories of your ancestors - from leaving distant homelands, through arduous crossings to first impressions of a new country. Delve into the personal stories, objects, and images of over fifty migrants from different ethnic origins, from 1808 until today.
Familiar things take on fresh life as their origins are uncovered.
Discover who brought with them, as their precious luggage, jandals, marmite, beer, rugby. The cultural richness and diversity of the regional lifestyles of British and Irish migrants are screened on video and maps. Images of other regions, including China, India, Dalmatia, Greece and the Pacific, tell of other regional lifestyles. A temporary exhibition highlights the contribution made to New Zealand by different ethnic communities. Currently the focus is on the astonishing contribution made by the Dutch community .