Canterbury Museum Christchurch

Rolleston Ave, Christchurch , Christchurch-Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand - Phone: 64 3 366 5000

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  • Cantebury Museum

    5

    rozdrury 7 contributions Australia Apr 14, 2012

    A donation gets you into this museum. It is well worth the visit to see many things NZ including a exibition of earth quake theme.

    This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.

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    Chc

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    Je prends mes marques au fur et a mesure, je me suis promenee aujourd'hui dans la ville, qui est petite finalement. On peut en trois quart d'heure a pied aller d'un bout a l'autre du centre ville.

    J'ai ete dans le jardin de la ville, j'ai trouve les gens differents compare a la France, les passants me disaient bonjour, ca me faisait …

  • 2

    Christchurch - Closed for Business?

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    What's the deal with a city that just under 10 months ago was hit with it’s second decent size quake within 6 months? In fact since the quake last September, Christchurch has been hit with approximately 7000 little tremors and obviously a couple of bigger ones which have had a devastating effect.

    What do you expect when you visit a …

  • 3

    Christchurch... rubble and resilience

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    After Deb had dropped us off at the airport we checked in our luggage and then went for a bit of a peruse of the duty free stuff before heading over to our gate area. It was here that a little Chinese guy came over from the Australian Tourist Board and asked if he could conduct a short survey about our time in Australia. This short (30 minutes!!) …

  • 4

    What is left to see at Christchurch??

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    After a lesurely morning and a visit to the local Oxford farmers markets we headed to Christchurch. Navigating is easy as the roads are well layed out.

    After a drive into the town center which was baracaded off due to the earthquake damage we headed
    for the Botanic gardens and the Cantebury Museum.

    Both well worth the visit!< …

  • 5

    From the 1st world to the 3rd world


    חג פסח שמח!
    כרגיל, אפתח בהתנצ 00;ות על ההעדר 93;ת הארוכ 92; מהבלו 90;. &# …

  • 6

    One Museum Survived - Red Zone Impressions

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    I started this morning with some internet research before I headed off to the center, or better what's left from the center. I visited the Canterbury Museum, the only building in Victorian style that survived the Feb. 2011 earthquake and is still open for public. The museum offers a quite broad spectrum from an Egyptian mummy, to the compulsory …

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    As English as putting Mayo on your chips

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    ... were already getting a 'nice city' vibe about the place. The route to the town square took us past lovely old buildings like the Canterbury Museum and the Arts Centre, as well as a smart modern one in the shape of the new Art Gallery. And once over the ...

  • 2

    The Garden City

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    ... it was happy hour and it was half price. Each day we found plenty of stuff to do without having to pay much, if any money. The Canterbury Museum was free and much better than I thought it was; it was great and had a lot of stuff for being free. When I ...

  • 3

    Sign of the Kiwi

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    ... bus heading to Queenstown being almost half the price of the regular bus ticket. Having heard good things I went over to the Canterbury Museum to give it a whirl with the main aim of checking out the Antarctic exhibits stuff with Christchurch being an ...

  • 4

    Goodbye, New Zealand

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    ... Shoppe. They offer tours of how the fudge is made, and lots of free samples to taste. Afterwards, I visited the Canterbury Museum, and then the Christchurch Art Gallery. I think I've seen enough New Zealand art for quite some time. Now that my ...

  • 5

    Christchurch

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    ... ; Daarna besloten om toch nog een nachtje bij te boeken, omdat ik eigenlijk nog wel een paar dingetjes zien wou. Zoals het Canterbury Museum, waar ik de volgende dag naartoe ben geweest. Erg geroemd om zijn mooie collecties, maar hmmm. Het was wel ...

  • 6

    Christchurch

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    ... . And I actually saw my first awake kiwi bird inside, and they certainly are bizarre looking creatures. I then took a short walk onto Canterbury museum which is free to get into (although they ask for a $5 donation). The museum has a really wonderful ...

  • 7

    Bed bugs and beyond

    ... , seen the Canterbury countryside from a big cable-car gondola thing, and went walking up in the hills, visited the Canterbury museum (free!) and Art Gallery (free again!), been to two hilarious stand up performances and seen loads of amazing street ...

  • 8

    Top of the South Island

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    ... gute Qualitaet ueber die Antarktis neben Maori, fruehen Siedler Nostalgika und ausgestopften Tieren im Canterbury Museum fuer lau. Die Port Hills suedlichvon Christchurch sind ganz schoen und in Lyttleton gibt's ein geiles Kitschcafe, total versteckt ...

  • 9

    Are we in England?

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    ... So we visited Christchurch city centre & actually did a bit of culture looking round the Canterbury Museum (and the fairly recent history of this practically new country). The next day we went to Willowbank wildlife reserve - fed the eels (yuck), ...

  • 10

    Christchurch Day 70 and 71

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    Day 70 Today I got up early to try and get lots of activities done. I went over to the Canterbury Museum, which was brilliant, there was a vast array of exhibits on display. There was a native NZ birds section, the body in Action section (a really cool ...