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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 >>
Read Diaries from Scott’s Final Antarctic Expedition
Thursday, 22 August 2019, 9:43 am | Canterbury Museum
A grisly first-hand account of the discovery of explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s frozen body is now available to read online. More >>
Canterbury Museum: Monster Penguin Find in Waipara
Wednesday, 14 August 2019, 9:36 am | Canterbury Museum
A new species of giant penguin – about 1.6 metres tall – has been identified from fossils found in Waipara, North Canterbury. More >>
Visit Quake City Exhibition for Free
Tuesday, 6 August 2019, 10:21 am | Canterbury Museum
Cantabrians can experience Quake City ’s new liquefaction exhibit at an upcoming free entry weekend. More >>
Art Exhibition Tackles Canterbury’s Fresh Water Issues
Friday, 5 July 2019, 10:28 am | Canterbury Museum
An award-winning exhibition of artworks examining Canterbury’s complex relationship with water is on now at Canterbury Museum. More >>
The Arctic Comes South in New Exhibition
Thursday, 27 June 2019, 9:37 am | Canterbury Museum
Penguins and polar bears normally live poles apart, but Canterbury Museum visitors will be able to see both in the same building when touring exhibition Arctic Voices opens this weekend. More >>
New Exhibition at Canterbury Museum
Friday, 17 May 2019, 2:32 pm | Canterbury Museum
Century-old food from Antarctica – some of which still smells fresh – will be on display at Canterbury Museum in Christchurch from Saturday as part of a new exhibition Breaking the Ice: The First Year in Antarctica. More >>
Works from Ravenscar Collection to go on public display
Friday, 3 May 2019, 9:41 am | Canterbury Museum
Visitors to four New Zealand art galleries, including Christchurch, will soon have the chance to see three works by Frances Hodgkins that have not been on public display for many years. More >>
Hands-on Exhibit Demonstrates Impact of Liquefaction
Monday, 29 April 2019, 10:39 am | Canterbury Museum
Visitors to Quake City , Canterbury Museum’s earthquake exhibition, can play with Christchurch’s coolest sand pit to learn about the science behind liquefaction. More >>
See famous artefacts from Antarctica’s first buildings
Thursday, 11 April 2019, 10:17 am | Canterbury Museum
The world’s most famous fruitcake and a forgotten watercolour painting will be displayed in Christchurch when an exhibition of objects from Antarctica’s first buildings opens in May. More >>
Uncovering Canterbury’s Hidden Women
Thursday, 28 February 2019, 9:59 am | Canterbury Museum
A new crowdsourcing project hopes to harness twenty-first-century technology to make the women of nineteenth-century Canterbury more visible in the history of the province. More >>
African Origins for the Enigmatic Adzebill
Thursday, 21 February 2019, 11:24 am | Canterbury Museum
The ancestor of New Zealand’s most mysterious giant bird – the extinct adzebill – likely flew here from Madagascar, Africa, new research has revealed. More >>
Leading spider scientists to gather in Christchurch
Friday, 8 February 2019, 11:43 am | Canterbury Museum
More than 200 experts in all things eight-legged will arrive in Canterbury next week for the biggest event on the world arachnology calendar. More >>
Logbook charts extraordinary Endurance lifeboat voyage
Tuesday, 8 January 2019, 11:59 am | Canterbury Museum
The voyage of the lifeboat James Caird across 1,500 km of wild sub-Antarctic sea in 1916 is one of history’s greatest boat journeys. An international group of researchers has used the original logbook of the James Caird ’s navigator, Akaroa-born Frank ... More >>
