Canterbury Museum
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CHRISTCHURCH — Canterbury Museum has suffered water damage throughout its galleries and storage areas caused by the region’s torrential rain.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Canterbury Museum is celebrating RISE as the most successful exhibition ever held.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Scientists from New Zealand’s Canterbury Museum and the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt Germany, announced today the discovery of one of the world’s oldest flying seabirds.
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The kiwi, the iconic New Zealand flightless nocturnal bird, is not a dwarf version of a distant ancestor but more likely evolved from a tiny bird that could have flown from Australia, according to an Australian and New Zealand palaeontologists.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Quake City has welcomed its 50,000th visitor this week. The visitor was warmly greeted by Quake City's Visitor Hosts and given a special gift to commemorate the occasion.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Canterbury Museum is celebrating with news that it is the first organisation in New Zealand and Australia to be awarded Gold Accreditation through Investors in People.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Canterbury Museum has today announced the major artists who will feature their artwork in the summer blockbuster exhibition, RISE.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Families of all ages and nationalities will be taking part in Canterbury Museum’s Great Museum Santa Search this year, much to the delight of Museum staff who say the event has become a special tradition in Christchurch.
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CHRISTCHURCH — From Buzzy Bees to paua shells, Kiwiana is being celebrated at Canterbury Museum next month.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Canterbury Museum has been awarded TripAdvisor’s 2013 Traveller’s Choice Attractions Award.
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CHRISTCHURCH — He has until lunchtime Friday to finish the first of the Big Walls aspect of the Oi You! project, but Australian street artist Vans the Omega is confident that time is on his side.
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A new photographic guide to New Zealand birds is one of the most definitive guides ever produced in the country.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Canterbury Museum has announced its summer blockbuster exhibition, which will be the largest, and possibly most controversial, ever held at the facility.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Canterbury Museum in collaboration with the Christchurch Arts Festival will open a stunning photographic exhibition this month featuring the works of renowned photographer Doc Ross.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Cantabrians and visitors to Christchurch only have one more week to view Scott's Last Expedition before it closes at Canterbury Museum on Sunday.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Canterbury Museum is opening its winter season exhibition Brilliant Brass this Friday 31 May, much to the delight of music and brass band enthusiasts throughout Canterbury.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Accolades are flowing in for London’s Natural History Museum this week after Scott’s Last Expedition won Best Temporary or Touring Exhibition at the prestigious 2013 Museums and Heritage Awards.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Quake City welcomed its 20,000th visitor today.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch parents will be celebrating tomorrow with the reopening of Discovery, Canterbury Museum’s natural history centre designed especially for children.
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CHRISTCHURCH — New visitors to Canterbury Museum’s Scott’s Last Expedition exhibition are being treated to a special addition to the show – Edward Atkinson’s skis.
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CHRISTCHURCH — More than 300 Canterbury community, Government and local business leaders attended the launch of Quake City in Re:START Mall last night.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Canterbury Museum has today announced Christchurch’s latest earthquake attraction, Quake City, much to the delight of the city’s key tourism operators.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Families of all ages are taking part in Canterbury Museum’s annual Great Museum Santa Search this year, much to the delight of Museum staff who say the event has become a special tradition in Christchurch.
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CHRISTCHURCH — More than 250 people attended the opening of Scott’s Last Expedition at Canterbury Museum last night.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Canterbury Museum has officially embraced social media by launching its new Facebook site today.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Canterbury Museum will open a major international touring exhibition telling the epic story of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole next month.
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CHRISTCHURCH — A stunning exhibition of remarkable Antarctic imagery will feature outdoors along Rolleston Avenue during New Zealand IceFest this month.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Cantabrians have until 1 October this year to see Canterbury Museum’s highly acclaimed Canterbury Quakes exhibition before it goes on tour for the next three years.
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CHRISTCHURCH — More than 8000 people have visited Canterbury Museum since it partially opened on Monday 2 July.
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CHRISTCHURCH — More than 900 people visited Canterbury Museum yesterday.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Its doors may be closed but behind the scenes, Canterbury Museum is a hive of activity as staff prepare for the iconic building’s reopening next month.
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