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Canterbury Museum


Canterbury Museum
Rolleston Ave
Christchurch 8013
New Zealand
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #21 of 141 attractions in Christchurch
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Traveler Description: Travel back in time through numerous exhibits of the Canterbury regions cultural and natural history.
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Attraction type: History museum
Address: Rolleston Ave Christchurch 8013
New Zealand
Tel: 64 3 366 5000
Fax: 64 3 366 5622

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“Good indoor alternative on rainy day”
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4 of 5 stars
WoodlandsSingapore
Singapore, Singapore
Dec 30, 2008

There were great and informative displays of various themes, such as antartic adventure, transportation, birds of NZ, Maori culture, the extinction of the moa, etc. Interestingly, they cleverly occupied the children by creating a "look for Santa" competition, where kids have to look for about 20 Santa toys among all the various exhibits. One of them is even a smurf... more

“Not Bad for a Regional Museum”
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3 of 5 stars
redanteater
Temple City, California
Dec 20, 2008

The Canterbury Museum is a nice, regional museum. It's a very comprehensive natural history museum, with exhibits on a number of topics. But having traveled around the world, seeing lots of museums, I wasn't particularly impressed. The museum seemed very disjointed, without any themes, and had a few good exhibits (I like the bird exhibit and the paua shell house... more

“Quite good”
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4 of 5 stars
Cassie78
Christchurch, New Zealand
Dec 4, 2006
1/1 found this review helpful

I live in Christchurch and like museums. The museum is quite good on exhibits of Maori history and has recently installed an Antarctic exhibition. Children (9 and 11) quite enjoy going Worth visiting, has a cafe at the top. Hagley Park is immediately behind the museum and lovely to stroll around/let the children have a run around. The Arts Centre... more

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Rolleston Ave, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand
Tel: 64 3 366 5000 Fax: 64 3 366 5622