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Love and Wool in the City 

To celebrate the joyful and vibrant Wharenui Harikoa coming to Ōtautahi Christchurch, Canterbury Museum has partnered with Gap Filler to yarn bomb the city. 


Wharenui Harikoa is a full size wharenui (Māori meeting house) made from 5000 balls of brightly-coloured yarn and crocheted by hand.

Christchurch’s avid crocheters have made a giant woollen salamander and colourful wraps to enliven the lampposts and trees around the Canterbury Museum Pop-Up at 66 Gloucester Street, as a message of support and love to the Wharenui and the artists. 

Come along to the Canterbury Museum Pop-Up to experience the astonishing Wharenui Harikoa and take in a special woolly streetscape.

Gap Filler, which is a social enterprise and consultancy, has been yarn bombing the Christchurch streets since 2022 as part of its Yarnarchy initative. Yarnarchy plays with the infrastructure of the city – statues, seats and streets, fostering another way of looking at the city and investigating opportunities to play with what we have in our urban environment.