Canterbury Museum Blog
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Read our blog posts from museum curators, scientists and technicians - stories from the Museum's collections and their internationally-recognised research. Explore New Zealand's rich cultural and natural heritage. Learn about the past, present and future of Canterbury.
Canterbury Museum Blog
1y ago
A portrait of illustrator Christiana Demain Hammond in the Museum's collection has a tragic backstory and a connection to Jane Austen ..read more
Canterbury Museum Blog
1y ago
The Empidoidea or dance flies have weird mouthparts, front claws like a praying mantis, and some of them even make balloons for their mates ..read more
Canterbury Museum Blog
1y ago
A special fish specimen tells us an interesting story about the intersection of Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition, Canterbury Museum Director and fish researcher Edgar Ravenswood Waite, and the Museum’s natural history collection ..read more
Canterbury Museum Blog
2y ago
Dame Ngaio Marsh is well-known for her work in theatre and crime fiction, but her history as a painter is not so well recognised ..read more
Canterbury Museum Blog
2y ago
As late as the 1860s, South Westland was (unknown land) for most Pākehā New Zealanders. ..read more
Canterbury Museum Blog
2y ago
A Museum collection of insects from the 1970s is part of a fascinating research project analysing tiny particles of pollen stuck to the specimens ..read more
Canterbury Museum Blog
2y ago
Roller skating is often thought of as a twentieth century pastime, but its true origins lie over 250 years ago ..read more
Canterbury Museum Blog
2y ago
The Inventory Team has been cataloguing a collection of around 60,000 postcards, which range from the beautiful to the bizarre ..read more
Canterbury Museum Blog
2y ago
A enigmatic giant wētā that has been in the Museum's storerooms for more than a century might be a previously unknown, extinct species ..read more
Canterbury Museum Blog
2y ago
Conservator Emily Fryer has been preparing precious objects to be photographed for a book produced by the Museum ..read more