UPGRADE COMPLETE: Aboriginal storyteller, celebrity and performer Francis Firebrace at the refurbished Captain Cook Birthplace Museum, in Stewart Park, Middlesbrough
THERE were totem pole crafts, Maori face painting and war dancing on offer at the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum in Middlesbrough today (Easter Monday).
The museum in Stewart Park reopened over the weekend following a £50,000 revamp.
Today the museum held an event to celebrate its reopening which included the Middlesbrough Haka – a Maori war dance, an Aboriginal Elder and Digeridoo player, street theatre, flax weaving demonstrations and crafts.
Visitors got to see the new-look museum which involves going through an “archaeological dig to the 18th century and viewing Cook’s cottage, the original of which stood close to the museum.
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