Waipu Scottish Migration Museum - Waipu Scottish Migration Museum 36 The Centre
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Contact Waipu Scottish Migration Museum
| Address : | Waipu Scottish Migration Museum 36 The Centre, Waipu 0510, New Zealand |
| Phone : | π +97 |
| Postal code : | 0510 |
| Website : | http://www.waipumuseum.co.nz/ |
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Luke Dixon on Google
β β β β β Great museum. Very interesting.
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Helen Williams on Google
β β β β β Fantastic display using a variety of modern technology and media to tell the story of the Scottish settlement of Waipu. Well worth the visit. Great gift shop too.
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Debbie-lee Hamilton on Google
β β β β β Was really enjoyable loved the bideonof history wss amazing
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Marcella Daun on Google
β β β β β My family and I visited this museum yesterday and it was a great experience for all of us including my 2 boys aged 6 & 3. The ladies that greeted us, gave warm welcomes, and also presented activities for my boys to find things around the museum. They thoroughly enjoyed their time there completing the activities. My youngest was tired and hΕhΔ by the end of our tour, but the ladies were very patient and understanding with us. Will definately be visiting again next time. Locals were free and the family pass was $25. Reasonably priced.
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Teresa Barnes on Google
β β β β β Very good, interesting and loved tge gift shop, the staff friendly and knowledgeable
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James Mathieson on Google
β β β β β I love a bit of awesome History, especially when I am directly involved in it, which I am here. I found all my ancestors
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Chasing My World Traveller on Google
β β β β β Very informative museum portraying about migration from Nova Scotia in 1800s
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Haiying Shi on Google
β β β β β Experience living history at Waipu Museum
Waipu Museum tells a settlement story unique in New Zealandβs history.
Migration Story
Come and learn how 1000 Scottish Highlanders arrived in Waipu in the 1850βs
Their Great Migration
The industrial revolution of the 18th century saw massive economic shifts throughout Europe which changed the nature of both land ownership and employment in many lands. This was especially the case in the Scottish Highlands where the crushing of the Jacobite rebellion at the Battle of Culloden had already destroyed much of the old Highland way of life.
Here things changed dramatically. The industrial production of wool and the discovery of a breed of sheep hardy enough to survive the bleak Highland conditions opened up the promise of huge profits for the Lairds and clan leaders. Their only hitch was that they had to remove their existing Highland populations to make way for the sheep. These changes ultimately caused a massive evacuation of the highland population.
Come to Waipu Museum and find out what happened to the Highlanders in the last years of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century and how this state of affairs brought 1000 of them to Waipu!
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