Space Place

The Space Museum is set in the Wellington Botanical Gardens overlooking the bay. Given the overcast weather the telescope was not in use tonight. However we had a look around the space museum and visited the planetarium. Space Place show cases not only the science behind astronomy but also the importance of astronomy throughout history. It also provide a brief history of astronomy in Maori cculture.

Interesting fact: in 1868 New Zealand became the first country to standardised time. The national time was set to 11.5 hours ahead of Greenwich Standard Time and was measured from this site. It was later changed to 12 hours.

We were treated to a beautiful view of the bay in lights as we left the gardens.Weiterlesen