Gisborne taonga

Gisborne's Tairāwhiti Museum has big plans for next year's 250th commemorations of Captain Cook's landing, the first meeting between Maori and Europeans and the bigger story of what happened before and afterwards. The small museum's already gone through several years of big changes including an extension, renovation of the earliest remaining settler's cottage on the grounds and better protection for its taonga in storage. Lynn Freeman met museum director Eloise Wallace at Tairāwhiti Museum to find out what they have planned for 2019, and what makes it special.