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Edward Atkinson’s skis displayed in Scott exhibition
Monday, 25 March 2013, 1:28 pm | Canterbury Museum
New visitors to Canterbury Museum’s Scott’s Last Expedition exhibition are being treated to a special addition to the show – Edward Atkinson’s skis. It was Atkinson who assumed leadership of Captain Scott’s last expedition in Antarctica and who ... More >>
Minister Officially Opens Quake City
Friday, 15 February 2013, 9:10 am | Canterbury Museum
15 February 2013 Minister Officially Opens Quake City More than 300 Canterbury community, Government and local business leaders attended the launch of Quake City in Re:START Mall last night. Officially opened by the Minister for Earthquake Recovery, the Hon. ... More >>
Tourism industry delighted by Quake City announcement
Monday, 17 December 2012, 9:51 am | Canterbury Museum
Canterbury Museum has today announced Christchurch’s latest earthquake attraction, Quake City, much to the delight of the city’s key tourism operators. More >>
Santa Search heralds start of annual tradition
Monday, 10 December 2012, 11:40 am | Canterbury Museum
Families of all ages are taking part in Canterbury Museum’s annual Great Museum Santa Search this year, much to the delight of Museum staff who say the event has become a special tradition in Christchurch. More >>
Hundreds attend Scott exhibition opening
Friday, 23 November 2012, 9:48 am | Canterbury Museum
More than 250 people attended the opening of Scott’s Last Expedition at Canterbury Museum last night. More >>
Museum launches new Facebook site
Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 3:12 pm | Canterbury Museum
Canterbury Museum has officially embraced social media by launching its new Facebook site today. The new Facebook page follows on from a pilot page created after the February 2011 earthquake. More >>
Scott’s Last Expedition exhibition opens
Tuesday, 23 October 2012, 11:36 am | Canterbury Museum
23 October 2012 Scott’s Last Expedition exhibition opens in Christchurch next month Canterbury Museum will open a major international touring exhibition telling the epic story of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova expedition to the South ... More >>
Museum exhibition profiles iconic Ponting imagery
Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 1:30 pm | Canterbury Museum
A stunning exhibition of remarkable Antarctic imagery will feature outdoors along Rolleston Avenue during New Zealand IceFest this month. More >>
Canterbury Quakes to tour New Zealand
Tuesday, 7 August 2012, 11:42 am | Canterbury Museum
Cantabrians have until 1 October this year to see Canterbury Museum’s highly acclaimed Canterbury Quakes exhibition before it goes on tour for the next three years. More >>
Record numbers boost Canterbury Museum profile
Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 11:49 am | Canterbury Museum
More than 8000 people have visited Canterbury Museum since it partially opened on Monday 2 July. Museum Director Anthony Wright is confident that these numbers will continue to rise as the Museum works towards fully opening next month. More >>
Hundreds attend Canterbury Museum opening
Tuesday, 3 July 2012, 2:51 pm | Canterbury Museum
More than 900 people visited Canterbury Museum yesterday. On Monday 2 July, for the first time since its closure on 16 April, the Museum opened its doors to families of all ages eager to explore the Museum’s galleries and highly acclaimed exhibition ... More >>
Canterbury Museum will partially reopen to public on 2 July
Friday, 29 June 2012, 1:42 pm | Canterbury Museum
Canterbury Museum will partially reopen to the public from 9.00am on Monday, 2 July. More >>
Canterbury Museum to reopen next month
Monday, 25 June 2012, 11:17 am | Canterbury Museum
25 June 2012 Canterbury Museum to reopen next month Its doors may be closed but behind the scenes, Canterbury Museum is a hive of activity as staff prepare for the iconic building’s reopening next month. More >>
Canterbury Museum to close temporarily
Tuesday, 17 April 2012, 10:32 am | Canterbury Museum
The Canterbury Museum Trust Board has today announced the temporary closure of Canterbury Museum until further notice whilst further engineering reports are commissioned and assessed. More >>
Canterbury Museum will reopen to the public on 2 Sept
Thursday, 1 September 2011, 3:53 pm | Canterbury Museum
Canterbury Museum will reopen to the public from 9.00 am on 2 September. The Museum has been closed to the public since the 22 February earthquake, and has since undergone full structural and seismic assessments. The majority of damage to the building was ... More >>
Royal Collection Antarctic photographs open
Friday, 20 August 2010, 1:31 pm | Canterbury Museum
A major exhibition of early Antarctic photography from the Royal Collection has opened at Canterbury Museum. More >>
Shackleton’s whisky revealed
Friday, 13 August 2010, 2:13 pm | Canterbury Museum
After much anticipation, the contents of a whisky crate from Ernest Shackleton.s 1908 British Antarctic (Nimrod) Expedition have been revealed today. More >>
Shackleton’s whisky thaw at Canterbury Museum
Wednesday, 21 July 2010, 2:41 pm | Canterbury Museum
A project to thaw, open and examine a crate of what is believed to contain whisky from Ernest Shackleton’s 1908 British Antarctic ( Nimrod ) Expedition has started at Canterbury Museum, New Zealand. More >>
New Book Launch: Historic alpine images
Thursday, 8 July 2010, 4:27 pm | Canterbury Museum
The Jack Adamson Collection, a rare and unique collection of glass plate photographs, will be celebrated by the South Canterbury Museum on Friday 9th July with the opening of an exhibition and book launch — Feeling for Daylight: The Photographs of Jack ... More >>
125 Years of St John celebrated at Canterbury
Thursday, 8 April 2010, 9:49 am | Canterbury Museum
An exhibition that explores the history of St John and commemorates 125 years of the organisation in New Zealand has opened at Canterbury Museum. More >>
