Gallipoli '2015 commemorating anzac 100 years' - We Are Here, Because They Were There

Te Papa's Gallipoli among three centenary openings today APRIL, Sat 18 '2015.

A week out from the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings, the public will get their first look at Te Papa's exhibition Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War.

The collaborative project with Weta Workshop tells the haunting stories of New Zealanders at the battle front, bringing them to life.

Media and family descendants had a preview of the exhibition yesterday after it was kept secret for months and huge public interest is expected on opening weekend.

Eight New Zealanders who were at Gallipoli are depicted in the exhibition as figures two-and-a-half times the size of the average person. Visitors can hear their stories and thoughts read aloud from their diaries and letters.

"There's very much a need to find in anything you create to find the intimate in the epic. And this was an epic war of extraordinary scale for the soldiers that fought there," said Sir Richard Taylor, the exhibition's creative director.

It took 24,000 hours of work to bring the eight characters to life in exact detail.

At 11am, Pukeahu National War Memorial Park will be officially opened by Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae and Prime Minister John Key. There'll also be a rededication of the Hall of Memories.

Tonight at 7pm, the WW1 Remembered Sound and Light Show opens. It features imagery from our military history projected onto the facades of the historic Dominion Museum Building and the Carillon. The show will run nightly until Anzac Day.

Tomorrow night, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott arrives in Wellington to take part in the Anzac centenary commemorations.

On Monday, Mr Abbott and Mr Key will take part in a dedication ceremony of the Australian Memorial in the newly-opened Pukeahu National War Memorial Park.

The two prime ministers will then visit Te Papa to view the Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War exhibition.

Members of the public have the opportunity to be part of New Zealand history this Saturday 18 April with the official opening of Pukeahu National War Memorial Park and Sir Peter Jackson’s Great War Exhibition.

At Pukeahu a spectacular performance involving the Carillon tower will be a key part of the official opening ceremony, while the former Dominion Museum, just behind the War Memorial, gets a new lease of life as The Great War Exhibition opens its doors.

The Pukeahu opening ceremony from 11am on Saturday begins with a multi-media sequence which takes the audience from the grounds outside into the National War Memorial via several large screens situated throughout the park.

The screens enable the audience to see the actors as the drama unfolds inside the War Memorial. Outside two choirs – the Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul and The Tudor Consort – will perform Memento for an Unknown Warrior, written by carillonist Timothy Hurd QSM.

The climax of the performance includes a surprise dramatic gesture involving the Carillon tower.

Visitors in the first week of the exhibition will be guided through the Great Hall on a journey taking them chronologically through the events of the First World War, beginning with the early optimism in 1914 that the fighting would be over by Christmas.

On Anzac Day the New Zealand Room opens which focuses on the Anzacs’ struggles at Gallipoli and features a diorama of Chunuk Bair as it was in 1915. This display includes about 5000 miniature soldiers, each individually hand painted by New Zealand war gamers.

The Great War Exhibition is open from 12.30pm on Saturday and has extended opening hours from 9am to 11pm daily until May 3, with the exception of Anzac Day when it opens at 12.30pm.

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