An Omniscience Center About Taranaki
An Omniscience Center About Taranaki
Being an out standing knowledge center in the heart of New Plymouth from 2003 Puke Ariki is a combination of a library and a museum providing solid information covering all the aspects of Taranaki region. It happens to be the first purposebuilt combination of museum library and the visitor information center and won the Creative Places Award for 2003 and the Strategic Arts Initiative Category for its new concept and creative features.
The center consists of two department buildings neighboring the Tasman Sea offering superb beauty to the area which was used for land reclamation until 1905. Mentioning a major feature of the center The Maori Gallery located on the second floor of the North wing is displaying a perfect merge of traditional and modern facets of the area. It illustrates the history of Taranaki Maori exhibiting the arrival of new people from Hawaiki and the European immigrants that happened in the beginning of the last century.
The Richmond Cottage also displays key aspects of the past history of area Taranaki while making a colonial home including a heritage garden which consists of herbs vegetables and flowers. A main educational feature Discover it! is to be found in the old library as the youth can participate in some educative activities and special programs on fossils minerals. It also comprises of music videos a virtual forest and a virtual dress up wardrobe that shows with its screen the picture of the guest who wears desired clothes.
In addition the visitors could be served coffee and snacks at the Daily News Caf while reading news papers or new magazines that are updated every day. One who drops into the Caf gets exposed to many sources of world hot news such as BBC CNN and The Daily News which are screened on the three televisions on the wall and its clocks gives the times of different capitals around the world.
Tourists can also make bookings for accommodation facilities by the information center and New Plymouth hotels are widely known in the region as a chief member of New Zealand hotels providing wonderful hospitality services.
About the writer: Naveen Marasinghe is an Online Marketing Executive at eMarketingEye which is a search engine marketing company that offers integrated Internet marketing services and specializes in serving the online travel and hospitality industry. http://www.emarketingeye.com/
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