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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 >>
Museum Visitors Top 800,000 for First Time
Friday, 4 January 2019, 10:04 am | Canterbury Museum
A record 802,595 people visited Canterbury Museum and Quake City, its special exhibition telling stories from the Canterbury earthquakes, in 2018. This is almost 38,000 more visitors than the previous record of 764,720 set in 2017. More >>
Museum acquires two more diaries by Scott’s ski expert
Tuesday, 18 December 2018, 11:25 am | Canterbury Museum
Canterbury Museum has acquired two Antarctic diaries, one describing the discovery of the frozen bodies of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and two of his companions. More >>
Te Aika hei tiki returns home for Kura Pounamu exhibition
Friday, 14 December 2018, 9:26 am | Canterbury Museum
An important pounamu hei tiki will be displayed in its home province for the first time in more than a decade as part of the exhibition Kura Pounamu: Our Treasured Stone , which opens at the Museum on Saturday. More >>
Canterbury Museum adds kit bag from Hillary’s Everest scape
Tuesday, 4 December 2018, 10:09 am | Canterbury Museum
Canterbury Museum has acquired a canvas kit bag used by Sir Edmund Hillary when he and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to summit Mt Everest. More >>
Young photographers amaze judges
Thursday, 29 November 2018, 9:58 am | Canterbury Museum
The judges of Canterbury Museum’s youth photography competition Amazing Animals! were stunned by the quality of the images entered. More >>
