Ngā kaupapa What's on 

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

A new exhibition featuring 50 extraordinary tāoga (treasured objects) from Canterbury Museum’s extensive Pacific collections.

Enter a fascinating world of bearcats that smell of popcorn, fish that can climb trees and the world’s only venomous primate.

Celebrated historian David Wilson tells stories from his latest book about the Terra Nova expedition.

Senior Curator Julia Bradshaw reveals how she discovered the hidden histories of women on the New Zealand goldfields for her latest book.

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.