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19 December 2012

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‘INVENT AND PLAY’ AT MOTAT THESE HOLIDAYS
Calling all budding young inventors and creatively inclined adults, get along to MOTAT’s January Holiday Experience ‘Invent and Play’ for a tremendously technological time!

As part of the exciting Holiday Experience, MOTAT is inviting visitors to create marvellous mechanisms using K’Nex, where creative construction toys and an impressive working display will have kids captivated for hours on end.

They will also get the chance to ‘Make ‘n’ Take’ their own MOTAT mementoes, drafting a blueprint of their own invention and checking out real blueprints from other projects! What’s more, kids will be encouraged to make a piece of kaleidoscope art work of their very own to take home using a salad spinner!

MOTAT’s January Holiday Experience ‘Invent and Play’ will be complemented by MOTAT’s newest travelling exhibition ‘Imagination Factory.’ All the way from Australia’s National Science and Technology Centre ‘Questacon,’ the fascinating ‘Imagination Factory’ exhibition explores basic mechanisms and uncovers how they can be used to create ingenious inventions.

The January Holiday Experience is running until from 3 January to 3 February 2013, so be sure to check it out and ‘Invent and Play’!!

Dates
MOTAT’s January Holiday Experience ‘Invent and Play’ is running from 3 January to 3 February 2013.

Location
MOTAT - Great North Road, Western Springs, Auckland.

Costs
‘Invent and Play’ is free with normal admission to MOTAT:
$14 adults
$8 students/children 5-16
$7 seniors
$free children under 5
$35 family pass (2 adults, 4 children)
$65 MOTAT Mates annual family pass

SOLENT MAKES ITS NEW HOME IN AVIATION DISPLAY HALL

After being located on MOTAT’s outdoor grounds, the museum is proud to announce that its Solent aircraft was transported inside its spectacular purpose-built Aviation Display Hall yesterday.

The Solent is a Mark IV flying boat and is the only one of its type left in the world. Solent flying boats are best known in New Zealand for delivering tourists along the ‘Coral Route’ to Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands, Tonga and Tahiti, but they were all withdrawn from service by September 1960.

The Solent will undergo a special restoration and conservation project over the next 12 months while it is undercover in MOTAT’s Aviation Display Hall.

The spectacular Solent will make its home in MOTAT’s impressive 3,000m2 custom designed Aviation Display Hall, which has already gained attention nationwide, winning awards for Public Architecture and Sustainable Architecture in the New Zealand Institute of Architecture Awards and for Clever Wood Solutions and Sustainability in the New Zealand Wood Timber Design Awards.

Come and check out the Solent in its new home today!

Dates
MOTAT’s Solent aircraft is now on display in MOTAT’s Aviation Display Hall.

Location
MOTAT – Meola Rd, Western Springs, Auckland.

Costs
MOTAT’s Aviation Display Hall is free to enter with normal admission to MOTAT:
$14 adults
$8 students/children 5-16
$7 seniors
$free children under 5
$35 family pass (2 adults, 4 children)
$65 MOTAT Mates annual family pass

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