Tūranga - Heritage Highlights: : Canterbury Museum – Past, Present, Future

Photo Credit: Christchurch City Libraries CCL-Walker-011a 'Postcard featuring an image of the Rolleston Statue outside the Canterbury Museum.

Sarah Murray, Canterbury Museum’s Deputy Director will give an illustrated talk about the Museum’s major redevelopment of its Rolleston Avenue site. She will discuss the evolution of the Museum’s building complex over the last 150 plus years, the numerous reasons behind the need for the redevelopment, and the massive project to move the collection and staff to offsite storage and offices in the space of just 8 months. The talk will conclude with some sneak peeks at what the new Museum will look like when it reopens in 2028.

Sarah Murray is part of the four-person Executive Leadership Team at Canterbury Museum and is both Deputy Director and Head of Collections and Research. She has strategic responsibility for the curatorial, conservation, outreach, inventory and registration teams and the Museum’s volunteers. Sarah has been with the Museum since 2007 and is the author of several books and journal articles as well as an Adjunct Fellow in History at the University of Canterbury.

Ages: Adults

Location: Tūranga - Auaha Hīhī / Spark Place, He Hononga | Connection, Ground Level

Special information: Join us early for a cuppa at 10am.

Cost: $FREE 

Cancellations: Available, at any time.  

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