Te Papa, New Zealand's National Museum, is a magnificent building both inside and out. Within it's spacious interior are housed many meticulously constructed displays covering subjects such as the geological history of the country, the history of settlement of the country and its natural history. Children and students of all ages are catered for with educational play areas, interactive exhibits and resource databases to help students with their studies.

The Club was honoured when Sports Wellington made an approach for us to set up a static display over Labour Weekend, along with other sports clubs in the Wellington region. The displays, in conjunction with the major "Body Odysey" exhibition, were to create a public awareness of the wide range of sports that are available to assist with the development of fitness and health. A feature of the weekend was a number of sports demonstrations by disabled members of the community.

The display was organised by Terry Hamilton (shown here wearing his Archery New Zealand Official Blazer) who produced a number of demountable partitions and examples of historical paraphanailia associated with archery, along with its more modern equivalent. Other club members produced labels, large colour prints of recent club activities, club business cards, copies of recent archery magazines and scrap books full of archery related cuttings.

Club members moved all the equipment into Te Papa the night before the display and almost completed the set up within the hour that we had at our disposal.

It only took a short time the next morning to get the display finished. Here Diane, dressed in her Archery New Zealand National Judges uniform, is putting the final touches to the display.

The main point of interest to visitors to the display was the area that contained examples of bow types, types of arrows, pictures of the various forms of archery (outdoor, indoor field/bowhunting). There were examples of the types of target used including the hapless 3D "gopher" (woodchuck) with an arrow protruding from his chest.

During the two days of the display it was manned in shifts by five members of the Trentham Club. Here David talks to one of the visitors. Many people stopped by to ask questions about the sport and for information as to how they could take up the sport. At the display we had information brochures for the four Archery Clubs in the Greater Wellington area and were able to direct people to the club which was most appropriate to their interests.
It was interesting to note that many of the people visiting the display were from overseas countries and were at Te Papa primarily to view our wonderful national museum.

At 6pm on Labour weekend Monday the show closed and we had to dismantle our work of art and return it to whence it had come. It had been a busy weekend, but club members went home with a sense of achievement, having brought the sport of archery to many people who had not given it much thought before.