Media Releases

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heads.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDNd/Moluccan-Owlet-nightjar-by-Francesco-Veronesi-CC-BY-SA.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsIngiLDEzNV0/Moluccan-Owlet-nightjar-by-Francesco-Veronesi-CC-BY-SA.jpg","Type":"2022","PageLink":"/about-us/media-releases/palaeontologists-find-mystery-relic-bird-fossil-at-st-bathans/"},{"ID":1279,"Title":"Dead Duck Divides Dates for Fossil Finds","Sort":139,"Date":"Wed, 23 Feb 2022","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EA newly discovered extinct duck that lived in ancient Aotearoa New Zealand could be key to dating other finds from an ancient lake bed uncovered in St Bathans, Central 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Track for October Opening","Sort":132,"Date":"Wed, 21 Jul 2021","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Ravenscar Trust has today officially gifted Ravenscar House to Canterbury Museum which will operate it as a house museum on behalf of the Christchurch and Canterbury community.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsIngiLDUzXQ/201805-Ravenscar-House-1205.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsIngiLDIxMF0/201805-Ravenscar-House-1205.jpg","Type":"2021","PageLink":"/about-us/media-releases/house-museum-on-track-for-october-opening/"},{"ID":1156,"Title":"Changing Face of Canterbury on Display in New Exhibition","Sort":131,"Date":"Tue, 06 Jul 2021","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe changing faces of everyday Cantabrians will be on display in a new exhibition of images from New Zealand\u2019s longest-running photography studio, Standish and 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Coming to Christchurch","Sort":128,"Date":"Wed, 16 Jun 2021","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003ECanterbury Museum visitors can recreate revolutionary experiments conducted by the father of modern science at a new exhibition from Italy, opening on Saturday.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDBd/Galileo-by-Justus-Sustermans-1636.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsIngiLDEzOV0/Galileo-by-Justus-Sustermans-1636.jpg","Type":"2021","PageLink":"/about-us/media-releases/hands-on-galileo-exhibition-coming-to-christchurch/"},{"ID":1142,"Title":"Model of Lost Heritage Building Comes to Quake City","Sort":127,"Date":"Tue, 08 Jun 2021","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAn incredibly detailed model of the historic Canterbury Jockey Club Building is the latest new exhibit at\u00a0\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cem\u003EQuake City\u003C/em\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, Canterbury Museum\u2019s special exhibition about 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