13 Jul 2022

He Awa Ora: Major New Whanganui River Exhibition

From Nights, 7:12 pm on 13 July 2022

Dr Rāwiri Tinirau, Pou Rauhī (Curator Māori) at The Whanganui Regional Museum talks us through their major new exhibition of national significance - He Awa Ora: The Living River. 

The exhibition explains the ground-breaking legislation that was established in 2017, when the river was recognised as a personhood.

Photo: Ang Wickham, CC BY 2.0