Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
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.
The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora occupies the Gothic Revival buildings of the former Canterbury College and the city's boys' and girls' high schools, many designed by Benjamin Mountfort from the 1870s. Restored after the 2011 earthquake, its stone quadrangles, Great Hall and clock tower now hold galleries, studios, shops and Rutherford's Den.
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.
Willowbank Wildlife Reserve is a wildlife park in Harewood, in northern Christchurch, opened in 1974 and home to about 95 species. A nocturnal house shows kiwi in daytime, and visitors also see takahē, kea, tuatara and longfin eels in its stream, as well as rare farmyard breeds and animals from abroad such as lemurs and otters.
The Christchurch Gondola is a 1-kilometre cable car that opened in 1992 and climbs from Heathcote Valley up Mount Cavendish in the Port Hills. The summit station, 445 metres above sea level, has a café and the Discovery Ride on the area's history, and looks across the city and the Canterbury Plains to the Southern Alps and down into Lyttelton Harbour.
The International Antarctic Centre is a visitor centre on Antarctica beside Christchurch Airport, next to the Christchurch bases of the New Zealand, United States and Italian Antarctic programmes. Visitors walk through an Antarctic storm room, watch little blue penguins being cared for, ride a Hägglunds all-terrain vehicle and see exhibits on Antarctic science and history.
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