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Akaroa Museum Review

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Akaroa Museum

Fodor's Review:

Get the feel of Akaroa with a stroll along the waterfront from the Garden of Tane to Jubilee Park. The focus of historic interest is the Akaroa Museum, which has a display of Maori pounamu (greenstone) and embroidery dating from the days of the French settlement. The museum complex includes the Old Courthouse and Langlois-Eteveneaux House, the two-room cottage of an early French settler, which bears the slight imprint of his homeland in its architecture with its wooden window panels.

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