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Canterbury Museum Awards Contract For Its New Base-Isolated Basement And Building
Thursday, 14 November 2024, 1:19 pm | Canterbury Museum
Museum Board Chair David Ayers says the Museum has enough committed funding secured to complete a weathertight and insurable building and base-isolated basement, and to install any plant that is integral to the building construction phase. More >>
Inspiring, Eccentric And Beautiful Pottery Star In New Canterbury Museum Exhibition
Wednesday, 18 September 2024, 9:47 am | Canterbury Museum
A diverse collection of inspiring, eccentric and beautiful pottery from the 1960s to the present day star in Form & Fire opening at Canterbury Museum at CoCA on 20 September. More >>
Kākāpō Are The True Ancient Species Of New Zealand, Not The Kiwi Or The Takahē
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 10:48 pm | Canterbury Museum
The site, which was once at the bottom of a large prehistoric lake, offers the only significant insight into Aotearoa‘s non-marine wildlife from 20 million years ago. More >>
Shackleton’s Polar Medal Gifted To NZ’s Canterbury Museum
Wednesday, 21 August 2024, 10:00 am | Canterbury Museum
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Polar Medal, one of the world’s most significant treasures from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, has been gifted to Canterbury Museum by the Adson Trust. More >>
Quake City Opens Doors With Free Entry Weekend
Monday, 29 July 2024, 1:16 pm | Canterbury Museum
Canterbury Museum’s special exhibition leads visitors through the first earthquake of 4 September 2010, the widespread destruction and rescue efforts of 22 February 2011 through to the long recovery and rebuild. More >>
Stunning Images Unveiled In Wildlife Photographer Of The Year
Monday, 29 April 2024, 10:47 am | Canterbury Museum
On loan from the prestigious Natural History Museum in London, the exhibition offers a fascinating glimpse of wildlife across the world, taking visitors from the bottom of the oceans to the peaks of mountains. More >>
Ngā Hau Ngākau Closes With A Weekend Of Celebration And Music
Monday, 22 April 2024, 12:06 pm | Canterbury Museum
A celebratory weekend of music, art and events will bring the exhibition Ngā Hau Ngākau (Breath of Mine) to a close next weekend after a 6-year tour of Aotearoa New Zealand. More >>
Fred And Myrtle's Paua Shell House Returns – In Virtual Form
Friday, 12 April 2024, 9:49 am | Canterbury Museum
Fred and Myrtle's Paua Shell House is back as a virtual tour. The new interactive experience means visitors to Canterbury Museum at CoCA can once again enjoy the polished pāua shells, vintage carpet and retro glory of this Kiwiana classic. <img ... More >>
Araiteuru, The Epic Museum Redevelopment Journey Ramps Up
Monday, 25 March 2024, 12:00 pm | Canterbury Museum
View a fly through of the new Museum More >>
Museum’s Much-loved Insect Drawers Get A Summer Outing
Monday, 15 January 2024, 11:39 am | Canterbury Museum
The bugs are back. Canterbury Museum’s much-loved insect drawers, which have fascinated and entertained children for decades, will be briefly back on display for Bugs at the Museum, a creepy crawly Summer treat opening on 17 January. Dr Morgane Merien, ... More >>
Century-old Antarctic Bell Signals Start Of International Cricket
Thursday, 14 December 2023, 11:37 am | Canterbury Museum
A special brass bell from Canterbury Museum’s collection will ring out at Hagley Oval this summer to signal the start of international cricket matches. Museum Registrar Scott Reeves with the bell from the SY Morning Inspired by a similar tradition at ... More >>
A Special Wharenui Explores Māori Stories Through Paintings, Carvings And Song
Wednesday, 13 December 2023, 4:58 pm | Canterbury Museum
Stunning paintings, intricately carved taonga puoro (traditional Māori musical instruments) and beautiful music are woven together in the exhibition Ngā Hau Ngākau (Breath of Mine) opening at Canterbury Museum at CoCA on 15 December. Robin Slow’s ... More >>
Museum Welcomes $10 Million Funding Boost For Redevelopment
Friday, 15 September 2023, 2:58 pm | Canterbury Museum
A $10 million Government contribution to Canterbury Museum’s redevelopment is “hugely significant and very much appreciated” says David Ayers, Chair of the Museum Trust Board. Atrium of the redeveloped Museum with the blue whale skeleton ... More >>
Toka Tū Ake EQC Renews Quake City Sponsorship, Supports Free Entry Weekend
Thursday, 27 July 2023, 9:08 am | Canterbury Museum
Toka Tū Ake EQC has renewed its sponsorship support for Quake City – Canterbury Museum’s special exhibition telling stories from the Canterbury earthquakes – for a further 3 years. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2307/e820eececbd35c42fe00.jpeg" ... More >>
New Venue For A New Year: Museum Pop-up Opens On Matariki
Thursday, 29 June 2023, 11:47 am | Canterbury Museum
Canterbury Museum will open its pop-up Museum at CoCA on Matariki (14 July) with a free temporary exhibition – Six Extinctions, featuring a 13 metre T-rex skeleton – alongside displays of collection highlights and visitor favourites. <img ... More >>
Museum Whoppers Leave The Building
Friday, 21 April 2023, 8:47 am | Canterbury Museum
Ed Hillary’s tractor and a giant globe are among the last of the oversized objects to be craned out of Canterbury Museum this morning. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2304/917ad658e27e7b1d3b56.jpeg" width="720" height="480"> The elephant stuck in the Museum’s ... More >>
Museum To Pop Up In CoCA Building
Wednesday, 25 January 2023, 10:16 am | Canterbury Museum
Canterbury Museum has found an ideal central city site for its pop-up museum and helped secure the future of a beloved Christchurch cultural institution in the process. The Museum will lease the CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki building at ... More >>
International Mural Masters Fly In For SHIFT: Urban Art Takeover
Wednesday, 18 January 2023, 9:20 am | Canterbury Museum
Six international artists are creating work for SHIFT: Urban Art Takeover , Canterbury Museum’s blockbuster farewell exhibition which opens on 28 January. Aches (Dublin, Ireland), SHOK-1 (London, United Kingdom) and ROA (Ghent, Belgium) flew in this weekend ... More >>
Empty Museum The Canvas For Blockbuster Urban Art Takeover
Friday, 2 December 2022, 5:26 am | Canterbury Museum
A who’s who of the urban art scene from Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas will flock to Ōtautahi Christchurch in January for a collaborative exhibition of epic proportions. Their canvas? The internal walls, floors and ceilings of the almost-empty, ... More >>
Museum Welcomes Government Redevelopment Funding
Wednesday, 12 October 2022, 10:39 am | Canterbury Museum
A $25 million Government contribution to Canterbury Museum’s redevelopment is “crucial” to the project, the Chair of the Museum’s Trust Board says. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2210/3c3554be59fc8c8969cd.jpeg" ... More >>
