Explore Christchurch
Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
art museum · Christchurch Closed now
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū is the city's public art gallery, opened in 2003 on Worcester Boulevard as the successor to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery of 1932. Its curved glass-and-steel building holds the city's collection of New Zealand and international art and presents changing exhibitions.
Free entryNo ticket needed
Closed now
Ferrymead Heritage Park is an outdoor museum in the Heathcote Valley, founded in 1964 beside the site of New Zealand's first public railway of 1863. Volunteer societies run its recreated Edwardian township of cottages, a school, a church and shops, along with collections of trams, trains, fire engines, printing presses and telephones.
Official site
The Air Force Museum of New Zealand opened in 1987 at Wigram, the first operational base of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, in south-west Christchurch. Its halls show aircraft from the First World War to the jet age, including a Spitfire, an Avenger and a Skyhawk, alongside uniforms, photographs and the story of New Zealand military aviation.
Official site
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