30 Nov 2022

The making of Te Papa's 'Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War'

From Nine To Noon, 11:20 am on 30 November 2022
Sir Richard Taylor with the machine gunner giants at Te Papa’s Gallipoli: The Scale of our War
exhibition.

Photo: Michael Hall

It's Te Papa's most successful exhibition ever - so popular in fact, it's been extended twice and will be on display until at least 2025. 

Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War opened on April 18 2015 to mark one hundred years since the Anzacs' campaign and more than 3.5 million people have now seen it - many of them repeat visitors.

Wētā Workshop helped build the exhibit, which is centred around eight giant figures - each of them based on a real person who experienced Gallipoli in 1915.

A new book of the same name, out tomorrow, looks at the how the exhibition was pulled together by Te Papa, Weta and guided in detail by military historian Christopher Pugsley.

Kathryn is joined by Sir Richard Taylor, head of Wētā Workshop - and one of the book's authors.