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There is a lot on offer here as there are several great galleries and museums. The Southland Museum and Art Gallery has a Māori gallery that emphasises the everyday aspects of pre-European contact life in Murihiku (Southland). This includes the processes of adze making; fishing, using bone and stone lures; and pastimes and musical instruments.
The natural history gallery presents many aspects of nature in the province, including an emphasis on rare and endangered species such as the kakapo and kiwi, as well as sub-fossil bones of extinct birds such as moa. This gallery also covers subjects such as geology and sea life. The "Beyond the Roaring 40's Gallery", interprets unique and vulnerable sub-Antarctic themes and was developed with both museum and Department of Conservation expertise. "Sport in Southland" illustrates heritage, diversity and changes over time of many of the sports played in the region and includes the shell of Burt Munro's world record-breaking Indian motorbike and the Roger Donaldson film about Burt, The World’s Fastest Indian. The art galleries feature regular contemporary and historical art exhibitions, plus travelling shows and works from permanent collections; often with a regional emphasis that includes Stewart Island and the sub-Antarctic Islands. The museum has a significant collection of art, photography, ceramics and craft. all of which are shown regularly. Of special note is a work by William Hodges, “A Maori before a waterfall in Dusky Bay’’ (1773), and Te Mauri, the large pounamu (greenstone) boulder that was shipped to the United States to be part of the Te Maori Exhibition in 1984.
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