Ash Bold, a year 4 pupil at Andersons Bay School, takes a close look at a poha, a Maori food preservation container, made of bull kelp and totara bark, during a new family guided tour of the Otago Museum yesterday. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH
The daily morning tours, which run for about 45 minutes, are free for Otago residents.
Equipped with clipboards and magnifying glasses, the visitors were led by guide qlAlice Waterman through the museum.
Among highlights were the chance to see moa footprints, preserved in stone, and to hold a real moa bone.
Andersons Bay School pupil Ash Bold (9) said the tour was "really fun".
"It’s because it helps me learn more about New Zealand and all the cultures and stuff."
A second set of tours, called Treasures of the Museum, runs each afternoon and is aimed at adults.
