Greetings from New Zealand.

When the Stuck at the Airport team isn’t hanging out in an airport, it can usually be found in a museum.

And this week, while traveling through Australia and New Zealand on Holland America’s Westerdam cruise ship, we’ve been delighted to stop in towns with truly wonderful museums.

One of our favorite museum discoveries is the Tūhura Otago Museum in Dunedin, New Zealand. The museum has been collecting for over 150 years and houses more than 1.5 million objects from around the world.

Among its treasures is the Kodak camera that New Zealand’s Sir Edmund Hillary carried to the summit of Mount Everest in 1953.

It is one of the objects in the Museum Director’s Choice exhibition, with a note that says in part that the camera is “arguably the most famous camera on the planet” and was used to take the iconic picture of Tenzing Norgay on top of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953.

Hillary and Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer Norgay were to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

The director’s note goes on to explain that back then, the Kodak Retina Type 11 represented “the pinnacle of photographic technology” and was celebrated for its compactness, reliability, and high-quality images.

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