Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War

Description

The long-running Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War is one of Te Papas most popular exhibitions, attracting over three million visitors since it opened in 2015. There is still strong visitor interest in the story of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign in which almost 3000 New Zealanders lost their lives. Just as the exhibition does so compellingly, so this book deploys Weta Workshops artistry to tell the story of the Gallipoli campaign through eight ordinary New Zealanders, the giants of the exhibition. With fold-out images, behind the scenes detail of how the giants were built and essays by those involved in the exhibition, this book is both a souvenir of Scale of Our War and an engaging way for readers to revisit the Gallipoli campaign.

Puawai Cairns (Ngati Pukenga, Ngati Ranginui, Ngaiterangi) is the Head of Matauranga Maori at Te Papa. She specialises in contemporary social history research and collecting to reflect the stories of Maori communities. Michael Keith cut his teeth in publishing as editor of the School Journal with the Department of Education. Since 1990, he has been the principal of Shearwater Associates, a company engaged in numerous publishing, writing, editorial and educational projects in New Zealand and the Pacific. This has included multiple exhibition and visitor experience developments at Te Papa Tongarewa and many other museums, historic places and environmental and recreational sites throughout Aotearoa. Christopher Pugsley is one of New Zealand's leading historians. A retired Lieutenant-Colonel in the New Zealand Army, he was a lecturer in military studies in New Zealand and Australia, and retired in 2012 as a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Among his recent works are the fifth edition of Gallipoli: The New Zealand Story and A Bloody Road Home: World War Two and New Zealand's Heroic Second Division. He has a long association with Nga Taonga Sound & Vision (formerly the New Zealand Film Archive). Sir Richard Taylor is the founder and head of Weta Workshop and the exhibitions creative director.