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Resource Consent Lodged for Proposed $195M Redevelopment
Monday, 7 December 2020, 2:21 pm | Canterbury Museum
Canterbury Museum has submitted a resource consent application to Christchurch City Council for its proposed redevelopment. The final concept designs have been informed by extensive public engagement. More >>
Stunning Animal Images Coming To Canterbury
Monday, 23 November 2020, 9:40 am | Canterbury Museum
Almost 100 of the top entries from the world’s most prestigious wildlife photography competition will be unveiled this week at Canterbury Museum. The Embrace by Sergey Gorshkov won Wildlife Photographer of the Year and will be on display in the exhibition. ... More >>
Henderson Island Fossils Reveal New Polynesian Sandpiper Species
Tuesday, 17 November 2020, 9:27 am | Canterbury Museum
Fossil bones collected in the early 1990s on Henderson Island, part of the Pitcairn Group, have revealed a new species of Polynesian sandpiper. The Henderson Sandpiper, a small wading bird that has been extinct for centuries, is described in an article ... More >>
Museum Unveils Concept Designs For Proposed Redevelopment
Saturday, 10 October 2020, 8:34 am | Canterbury Museum
Artist’s impression of the Canterbury Museum Rolleston Facade viewed from the North. Canterbury Museum has today released concept designs for its $195 million proposed redevelopment, which celebrate and reveal more of the Museum’s heritage ... More >>
Family Favourite Night At The Museum Returns
Friday, 2 October 2020, 11:40 am | Canterbury Museum
Canterbury Museum’s annual family favourite Night at the Museum will return next week in a birthday-themed event to celebrate the Museum’s 150th anniversary on Rolleston Avenue. The Museum will be open for young explorers from 6.00 to 8.00 pm ... More >>
Museum To Celebrate 150th Anniversary With Exhibition And Book
Friday, 25 September 2020, 11:34 am | Canterbury Museum
The world’s last remaining Huia nest is one of the rarely-seen taonga (treasures) to be showcased in a new exhibition celebrating Canterbury Museum’s 150th anniversary. 1 October marks 150 years since the Museum’s doors first opened on Rolleston Avenue. ... More >>
Dragons And Taniwha: Owen Mapp Retrospective Comes To Canterbury
Monday, 7 September 2020, 10:50 am | Canterbury Museum
An exhibition of works by the most eminent living artist carver of bone in Aotearoa New Zealand opens at Canterbury Museum on Friday. Owen Mapp in his studio. Photo by Hanne Eriksen Mapp Curated and toured by Pātaka Art + Museum, Porirua, Owen Mapp: ... More >>
Canterbury Museum Delighted With Public Feedback On Proposed Redevelopment Project
Friday, 24 July 2020, 3:22 pm | Canterbury Museum
Putting the blue whale skeleton back on display, improving visitor facilities, protecting the heritage buildings, and new prehistoric animal exhibits are just some of the ideas voiced by Cantabrians having their say on the proposed redevelopment of the ... More >>
Enter The Orbit Of Our Moon At Canterbury Museum
Wednesday, 1 July 2020, 2:40 pm | Canterbury Museum
An out-of-this-world exhibition about the moon is landing at Canterbury Museum this weekend. On tour from Nelson Provincial Museum, Our Moon: Then, Now and Beyond explores the past, present and future of our nearest celestial body. It’s a hands-on exhibition ... More >>
New Zealand’s Ancient Monster Penguins Had Northern Hemisphere Doppelgangers
Tuesday, 30 June 2020, 7:59 am | Canterbury Museum
Copepteryx : Plotopterids like these Copepteryx looked remarkably like penguins. Image: Mark Witton. New Zealand’s monster penguins that lived 62 million years ago had doppelgangers in Japan, the USA and Canada, a study published today in the ... More >>
Museum Seeks Public Input Into $195 Million Proposed Redevelopment Plans
Saturday, 6 June 2020, 7:30 am | Canterbury Museum
Canterbury Museum, a much-loved Canterbury taonga (treasure) and the most-visited tourist attraction in Te Wai Pounamu (the South Island), is seeking public input into proposed redevelopment plans that are critical to its ability to remain open. ... More >>
Twentieth Century Fashion Goes Online
Thursday, 28 May 2020, 9:44 am | Canterbury Museum
A collection tracing the fashion and style of twentieth century New Zealand can now be viewed on Canterbury Museum’s Collections Online portal . From fabulous frocks to everyday garments, Invercargill-born Mollie Rodie Mackenzie amassed one ... More >>
Find Family And Friends In Museum Photography Collection
Wednesday, 8 April 2020, 11:11 am | Canterbury Museum
Cantabrians with an interest in family history are being called on to help Canterbury Museum during the lockdown. The Museum wants to identify people and places in thousands of photographs taken by New Zealand’s longest-running photography studio, Standish ... More >>
Canterbury Museum And Quake City Close
Saturday, 21 March 2020, 6:23 pm | Canterbury Museum
Canterbury Museum and Quake City , its special exhibition telling stories of the Canterbury earthquakes, have closed to visitors until further notice. This includes the Museum cafe and store. Following the closure of Christchurch City Council community ... More >>
Canterbury Museum to Care for Mosques Attacks Tributes
Wednesday, 11 March 2020, 11:28 am | Canterbury Museum
About 100 tributes, a representative sample of the thousands left in the outpouring of aroha (love) and support for the victims of the Christchurch mosques attacks, will be cared for by Canterbury Museum. More >>
Pacific-inspired Fashion Exhibition Comes To Canterbury
Tuesday, 18 February 2020, 1:17 pm | Canterbury Museum
Award-winning garments by a talented Christchurch teen will be among the Pacific-inspired looks on show at Canterbury Museum’s new exhibition, opening on Saturday, 22 February. Moana Currents: Dressing Aotearoa Now features a linen ... More >>
Meet life-size models of Waipara’s giant penguins
Monday, 9 December 2019, 2:19 pm | Canterbury Museum
The now world-famous giant parrot, Squawkzilla, and the monster penguins of Waipara are the stars of Canterbury Museum’s new exhibition Ancient New Zealand: Squawkzilla and the Giants, which opens Friday 13 December. More >>
Life lessons from the world’s most-studied people
Tuesday, 26 November 2019, 12:29 pm | Canterbury Museum
The findings of a landmark New Zealand study tracking the lives of 1,000 babies born in the early 1970s will be displayed in an exhibition opening 30 November at Canterbury Museum. More >>
New display of specimens collected by Endeavour botanists
Friday, 25 October 2019, 11:28 am | Canterbury Museum
Plant samples gathered 250 years ago by the botanists on James Cook’s Endeavour expedition will be displayed in a new exhibition that opens Wednesday 30 October. More >>
Scientists discover one of world’s oldest bird species
Wednesday, 18 September 2019, 4:35 pm | Canterbury Museum
The ancestor of some of the largest flying birds ever has been found in Waipara, North Canterbury. Bony-toothed birds (Pelagornithids), an ancient family of huge seafaring birds, were thought to have evolved in the Northern Hemisphere – but ... More >>
