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.