Ngā kaupapa What's on 

Visit the Canterbury Museum Pop-Up for collection highlights and visitor favourites while the main Museum is being redeveloped.

The popular Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition returns to the Canterbury Museum Pop-Up with a fresh batch of 100 spectacular animal images from around the world.

Dive into our competition and see if your image fits the bill. Enter your best wildlife photographs in our Amazing Animals photo competition and be in to win a fantastic prize.

Buy a beautiful piece of pottery to take home.

Discover prehistoric tales with Canterbury Museum at Tūranga Library for a roarsome, T-rrrific time full of dino fun!

If you’ve been missing Canterbury Museum’s blue whale skeleton since it left public display 30 years ago, then you are in for a treat.

Discover a tiny world of insects in your backyard with a new exhibition touring Canterbury.