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[{"ID":458,"Title":"Beautiful Botanicals","Sort":12,"Date":"Fri, 22 Sep 2017","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003ECanterbury Museum cares for a large collection of botanical studies and landscapes by renowned local artist, Margaret Olrog Stoddart. The daughter of an early Canterbury settler, Margaret was born in 1865 in Stoddart Cottage, Diamond Harbour and later lived in Godley House. While Godley House was destroyed in the 4 September 2010 earthquake, Stoddart Cottage still stands.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDBd/2015-114-34-Margaret-Stoddart-sitting-verandah-Godley-House.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsIngiLDY4XQ/2015-114-34-Margaret-Stoddart-sitting-verandah-Godley-House.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/discover/blog-posts/beautiful-botanicals/"},{"ID":451,"Title":"Haast Past","Sort":11,"Date":"Mon, 04 Sep 2017","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EIn 1863 Canterbury Museum founder, Julius von Haast led an expedition over the pass in South Westland that now bears his name. Expedition surveyor William Spearman Young's delightful watercolours add interest to Haast's rather more serious account of the journey.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDI1XQ/1984-224-1-Haast-Pass-Brewster-1201.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsIngiLDI0XQ/1984-224-1-Haast-Pass-Brewster-1201.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/discover/blog-posts/haast-past/"},{"ID":448,"Title":"Osman, Scott's Best Sledge Dog","Sort":10,"Date":"Mon, 21 Aug 2017","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EOsman, which Captain Robert Falcon Scott christened his \"best sledge dog\", was recruited from the Arctic for the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1910. He and other sledge dogs spent the Spring of 1910 training on Quail Island in Lyttelton Harbour, pulling makeshift sledges built with small wheels to handle the snowless environment.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDExOF0/Osman.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsInkiLDdd/Osman.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/discover/blog-posts/osman-scotts-best-sledge-dog/"},{"ID":421,"Title":"Behind the Tattooists' Art","Sort":9,"Date":"Tue, 18 Jul 2017","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003ETraditional Japanese tattooing traces its origins to ukiyo-e, an art form which developed more than 400 years ago in Japan\u2019s theatre and brothel districts. Canterbury Museum holds about 500 uyiko-e artworks in the collection, with a handful on display in the Asian Arts Gallery. Read more about ukiyo-e and the story behind the tattoos in our special exhibition \u003Cem\u003EPerseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World\u003C/em\u003E, on until 13 August 2017.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDBd/JANM-Perseverance-Shige-1201.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsInkiLDBd/JANM-Perseverance-Shige-1201.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/discover/blog-posts/behind-the-tattooists-art/"},{"ID":413,"Title":"Artistic and Scientific Marvels","Sort":8,"Date":"Mon, 19 Jun 2017","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EBlaschka models, hand made from glass in the nineteenth century are both artistic marvels in the field of science and scientific marvels in the field of art. The Museum cares for the largest collection of these in the South Hemisphere. Some of the collection is on display in the Victorian Museum in\u00a0\u003Cem\u003EThe Christchurch Street.\u003C/em\u003E\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDMyXQ/CM017-160907-1200-crop.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsIngiLDg2XQ/CM017-160907-1200-crop.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/discover/blog-posts/artistic-and-scientific-marvels/"},{"ID":407,"Title":"Casting New Light on Moths","Sort":7,"Date":"Fri, 02 Jun 2017","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003ECanterbury Museum has 120,000 specimens - including 20,900 moths - in the pinned insect collection which have been collected and identified over decades. Many are only found in New Zealand, some are very rare and others have an interesting story to tell.\u00a0\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDk1XQ/Photo-1-Adult-male-of-Orophora-unicolor-on-pin-650.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsIngiLDEyXQ/Photo-1-Adult-male-of-Orophora-unicolor-on-pin-650.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/discover/blog-posts/casting-new-light-on-moths/"},{"ID":333,"Title":"P\u0101t\u012bt\u012b: a Fusion of Cultures","Sort":6,"Date":"Tue, 16 May 2017","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EThe p\u0101t\u012bt\u012b, a single-handed weapon, represents a fusion of M\u0101ori and European cultures.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDExMF0/1952-30-498-patu-2.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsZmFsc2UsMF0/1952-30-498-patu-2.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/discover/blog-posts/patiti-a-fusion-of-cultures/"},{"ID":342,"Title":"From Geraldine to Jericho","Sort":5,"Date":"Fri, 21 Apr 2017","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EAs we commemorate the centenary of the First World War - the Great War - a new book 'From Geraldine to Jericho' provides a fitting tribute to the New Zealand men and their horses who served in the Middle East. The book can be downloaded \u003Ca title=\"here\" href=\"https://collection.canterburymuseum.com/objects/848218\"\u003Ehere\u003C/a\u003E.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDIxNl0/Ch5-34-1202.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsInkiLDg5XQ/Ch5-34-1202.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/discover/blog-posts/from-geraldine-to-jericho/"},{"ID":324,"Title":"Fantastical Life in Antarctic Wonderland","Sort":4,"Date":"Tue, 28 Mar 2017","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the winter of 1908, Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson wrote a fantastic sci-fi story in which explorers descend into an imaginary wonderland at the bottom of an abyss where they encounter gigantic mites, water-bears and rotifers. A copy of his book has just sold at auction in London for\u00a0\u003Cspan\u003E\u00a355,000 ($97,400).\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDg3XQ/175-Aurora-Australis-pencil-drawing-crop.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsIngiLDIwXQ/175-Aurora-Australis-pencil-drawing-crop.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/discover/blog-posts/fantastical-life-in-antarctic-wonderland/"},{"ID":318,"Title":"The St Bathans Fauna: a Window on New Zealand's Past","Sort":3,"Date":"Fri, 10 Mar 2017","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the 1860s, St Bathans was at the heart of the Central Otago gold rush. Today researchers are searching for another kind of treasure: fossils.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDMxM10/201601-Vanesa-De-Petri-and-Dr-Trevor-Worthy.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsInkiLDE3MV0/201601-Vanesa-De-Petri-and-Dr-Trevor-Worthy.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/discover/blog-posts/the-st-bathans-fauna-a-window-on-new-zealands-past/"},{"ID":304,"Title":"Hunting for snipe on The Snares","Sort":2,"Date":"Thu, 09 Feb 2017","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Department of Conservation (DOC) recently offered the Museum an historic hut that had been used as a research lab on The Snares Islands. Museum Exhibition Preparator Sebastian Denize was excited by the chance to join the DOC expedition to recover the hut and help relocate rare snipe from The Snares to Whenua Hou (Codfish Island).\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDMwXQ/Snipe-1200.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsIngiLDkwXQ/Snipe-1200.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/discover/blog-posts/hunting-for-snipe-on-the-snares/"},{"ID":276,"Title":"Celebrating 75 Years of Air New Zealand - Let's Eat!","Sort":1,"Date":"Wed, 07 Dec 2016","ShortDesc":"\u003Cp\u003EIn 1940, the first scheduled passenger service from Auckland to Sydney on flying boat \u2018Aotearoa\u2019 ZK-AMA took place. This flight marks the birth of New Zealand\u2019s national airline, originally named TEAL (Tasman Empire Airways Limited), now Air New Zealand. It was piloted by Captain John Burgess and there were just nine passengers.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDExM10/Blog-post-2-image-3.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsInkiLDJd/Blog-post-2-image-3.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/discover/blog-posts/celebrating-75-years-of-air-new-zealand-lets-eat/"}]