Join the Museum on an epic journey of change as we reimagine and redevelop not just the buildings, but the institution itself. Follow the rebuild progress and discover inspiring stories behind the Museum collection.
- Amazing Animals Photo Competition Winners 2025
- Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction
- Andrea Webley
- A painting's voyage from country estate to the Museum
- X-Ray Mystery Solved
- Ancient Aotearoa New Zealand was a paradise for penguins with giant pointy beaks
- The Epic Museum Journey
- Bird mystery solved thanks to DNA tech
- Antarctic Explorers
- A gallery on stilts
- Anthony Wright
- Adele Jackson
- Araiteuru, the Museum Redevelopment Journey Ramps Up
- A special wharenui explores Māori stories
- Aotearoa's shark-toothed and deadly carnivorous snails
- Boredom, brutality and art on a whaling ship
- About us
- A Victorian Christmas in the Christchurch Heritage Street
- From Working Class Lad to Brigadier General
- A hundred years of preserving settler history
- From family heirloom to Museum treasure
- About us
- A living panorama: parasols in Canterbury
- Big Fish on the Move
- Air New Zealand's 75th exhibition to land in Christchurch
- Art in the palm of your hand
- 700,000 visitors break a new record at Canterbury Museum
- Artefacts from the first building in Antarctica to be conserved in Christchurch
- A Mystery to be Solved at Canterbury Museum
- Admiring Admirals in Canterbury
- Air New Zealand's 75th exhibition makes South Island debut
- Air New Zealand show drives record visitor numbers
- Museum to Pop Up in CoCA Building
- Bespoke Box Building
- Birds in Lifejackets
- Blockbuster Dinosaur Exhibition Coming to Canterbury Museum
- A Birthday Present for Wee Jessie
- Bald Haast's Eagle Feasted on Moa Guts
- An Un-egg-spected Find
- Benjamin Work Talks About His Giant Mural, Motutapu II
- A Tiny Treasure
- A Respectable Sport
- A Royal Birthday
- Art Exhibition Tackles Canterbury’s Fresh Water Issues
- African Origins for the Enigmatic Adzebill
- An Artist's Gift
- Acclimatisation or Assassination?
- A Castaway's Salvation
- Arthur Lilly's 'Life' in Concert
- Beautiful Botanicals
- Behind the Tattooists' Art
- A Big Bird's Egg
- 46 Days of Geological Discovery
- A Disaster Set in Stone
- 784,756 visitors in 2016-17 is an all-time record at Canterbury Museum
- Australasian First for Museum Staff
- A Warrior's Weapon
- An Ancient Connection
- Air New Zealand's 75th Exhibition Extends its Southern Stay
- A Gardener's Best
- Ancient penguins lived alongside dinosaurs?
- Air New Zealand 737 cockpit joins 75th exhibition
- Adjustable Marriages: Relationships, Divorce and Bigamy on the Goldfields
- Artwork rescued from rubble installed in special Museum exhibition
- An Adventurous Artist
- Adventures in Taxidermy
- Ancient beauty
- Body Beautiful
- 1970s Chic
- Back on top
- Artistic and Scientific Marvels
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