Bird Land: Te Kāhui Manu
The islands of Aotearoa New Zealand were once inhabited by birds. Shrieking, warbling, tinkling, booming. Forest, river, marsh, mountain, ocean, shore—everything charged with their mauri, life force.
Made in the Pacific: A Collection of Tāoga
A selection of Pacific tāoga from the Canterbury Museum in conversation with contemporary artworks that highlight the continued strength in culture and traditional art forms.
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil
Exploring the relationship between tākata and whenua – people and land – through Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history.
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Ka tuwhera ki te 9pm i kā pō Wenerei
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Late night Wednesday until 9pm
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Free entry, free wifi
If a tree falls in a forest
but a conservation minister doesn't hear it fall, does it make a dollar?
Hello, my name is...(#2)
It's time to meet another of our wonderful visitor hosts. Here are Andrew Shepherd's answers to my ten questions:
This will make your head hurt
The hardest working video-making musicians OK Go (and, presumably, a fairly large team of helpers) are at it again.
Rehang
Back in our newly refurbished storerooms, the collections team are hard at work getting our historical paintings safely back on their racks.
