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Keep a look out for our new billboard going up on the desert road, veeeerrry cooool!

The button maze will represent confusion and panic, the walls will be filled with the 1.5 million buttons, one button for every child murdered in the Holocaust. The centre will be lit by a candle surrounded by the words of a Holocaust survivor.

“In a time like the Holocaust its like living in a pitch black room, but everytime someone does something for you its like someone coming in and lighting a candle. you need to focus on the light”.

The National Army Museum will be supplying a button container in the “Anne Frank” exhibition. We invite everyone who visits us to bring any spare buttons they have to put in the container. These buttons will be forwarded to Moriah College to help them acheive building this fitting memorial for many children lost in the Holocaust.

Like other Special Force units, the NZSAS’s mission is to respond to those grim situations where other Army units may not be able to act as effectively or efficiently.  The role of the NZSAS therefore requires an extraordinary high degree of intense training following a vigorous and rigorous selection process.  Their military operations require the same high degree of cunning, guise and operational flexibility.

Despite what many may think, our Special Force soldiers are not “super soldiers” – rather they are hand-picked volunteers who train long and hard and live and operate by their motto “Who Dares Wins” and follow their ode (James Elroy Flecker – “The Golden Road to Samarkand” [1913]):

“The Master of the Caravan said:
But who are ye in rags and rotten shoes,
You – dirty bearded, blocking the way?

The Pilgrim answered:
We are the Pilgrims, Master; we shall go
Always a little further: it may be
Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow,
Across that angry or that glimmering sea,
White on a throne or guarded in a cave
There lives a prophet who can understand
Why men were born: but surely we are brave,
Who take the Golden Road to Samarkand”.

Watch out for our new exhibition OPENING SOON.

Now you can add their image to our new Tears on Greenstone Memorial Wall.

All we require is their name and service details, and a suitable photo or digital image. We will produce the wall image and return your original photographs. There is a charge of $50 which covers production of the wall image and your own certificate of remembrance. Please allow approx one month for your image to be installed.

For more information please contact our library staff on 0800 369 999 or visit our Tears on Greenstone page to complete our online form.

Access cards are available from the Museum Gift Shop.

The National Army Museum Shop has managed to secure a large selection of models, at exceptional prices, due to the wholesaler no longer importing this product. We would like to pass these heavily discounted savings on to you.

Prices range from $28 – $135.

Sizes 1:32 and 1:72

There are too many individual items for us to photograph or list separately so please call us  on 06 387 6911 immediately.

Anne Frank

This touring exhibition from the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam has travelled extensively throughout the world.

The exhibition, which provides a chronology of events from the rise of Nazi Germany in 1933 through to the persecution of Jews as part of Hitler’s final solution is both thought-provoking and shocking, and will impact on all generations who visit this exhibition at the National Army Museum.

The exhibition will include some artefacts from the museum’s collection as well as a recently produced documentary.

Anne Frank Touring Exhibition

National Army Museum, Waiouru, NZ

4th August – 3rd November 2010

Longueval - Matt Gauldie

Included will be approximately 30-40 of his artworks and a number of sculptures he has recently completed.

We’ll keep you posted on dates, so come back to find out more soon or contact us for more information.