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Canterbury Museum
Working with local communities to tell stories important to Canterbury
Canterbury Museum is a registered Charitable Trust, the governance of which is vested in the Canterbury Museum Trust Board, and set out in the Canterbury Museum Trust Board Act 1993.
Canterbury Museum was first opened to the public on 2 December 1867 and has been located on our current site in Rolleston Avenue since 1 October 1870.
Canterbury Museum - Latest News [Page 11]
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 >>
Queen to lend early Antarctic photos to Museum
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 2:47 pm | Canterbury Museum
A major exhibition of early Antarctic photography will be loaned from the Royal Collection by Her Majesty The Queen for the 2010 New Zealand Antarctic Festival. The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Photography will open in the Robert ... More >>
Museum acquires Frances Ryman Collection
Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 12:06 pm | Canterbury Museum
Canterbury Museum has acquired the Frances Ryman Collection in an auction held by Webb’s auction house on Thursday 24 September. The collection of over 60 taonga Maori from Matariki Point on the north bank of the Clarence River, was excavated ... More >>
Highgrove Florilegium donated to Canterbury Museum
Wednesday, 29 July 2009, 3:24 pm | Canterbury Museum
A generous group of donors will be able to see their gift to Canterbury Museum for the first time on Thursday night. The group has donated the Highgrove Florilegium to the Museum collection and the small function will be held to thank the donors ... More >>
Over 1.1m visitors to Canterbury Museum & Gallery
Friday, 10 July 2009, 4:20 pm | Canterbury Museum
Christchurch residents and visitors to the city have made the most of a rich and varied offering of arts and heritage exhibitions and events over the past year. More >>
Canterbury Museum sets new attendance record
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 2:15 pm | Canterbury Museum
Canterbury Museum saw a total of 637,174 visitors through its doors in 2008, the first time the Museum has exceeded 600,000 visitors in a calendar year. The 637,174 figure represents an increase of 49,193 (+8.4%) visitors over the 2007 calendar year ... More >>
Inspiring Forms In Glass Invitational NZ
Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 5:22 pm | Canterbury Museum
Canterbury Museum is once again hosting Glass Invitational NZ, a survey of contemporary New Zealand glass art toured by Milford House Limited and curated by Stephen Higginson. More >>
Henry Nicholas VC medal returned to display
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 3:40 pm | Canterbury Museum
The Victoria Cross awarded to Henry James Nicholas of Christchurch during the first World War will be returned to display in Canterbury Museum on 23 October. The original medal was removed from display and replaced with a replica in December last year ... More >>
Tarantulas take up residence at Canterbury Museum
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 9:41 am | Canterbury Museum
At the end of this month four new tarantulas will take up residence in Discovery at Canterbury Museum. The eight-legged arrivals, including an endangered Mexican red knee tarantula, will be housed in a purpose built terrarium. Each spider has ... More >>
International team to conserve Antarctic artefacts
Thursday, 11 September 2008, 12:57 am | Canterbury Museum
Professional conservators from Canada and Britain started work this week in a laboratory at Canterbury Museum to catalogue and conserve part of the iconic collection of artefacts from Scott and Shackleton’s expeditions. More >>
