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  • Astronomy Talk: Understanding our Universe

    Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New Zealand

    Join us at the Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum for a lunchtime talk (BYO lunch) from the wonderful Alistair Perkins of the Ashburton Astronomy Group. This talk will include a brief history of astronomy, a pictorial guided tour of the Cosmos and a look at Ashburton's historic 140-year-old telescope located at the Ashburton College observatory.…

  • Sharing Histories | Gifts of 2022

    Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New Zealand

    Explore some of the treasured objects, archives, and photographs that were generously donated to and acquired by the Ashburton Museum and Historical Society in 2022. This inaugural exhibition will return each year, showcasing some of our most special and fascinating acquisitions of the previous year and exploring why they are significant to Hakatere Ashburton. Join…

  • Caption This

    Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New Zealand

    Museum Exhibition Space, 10am - 4pm daily Throughout our Humour Me - The Funny Side of Town exhibition we are inviting visitors to come up with captions for a few of the cartoons that are held in the Museum’s collection. Three $50 Paper Plus vouchers are up for grabs for our favourite 3 captions. This…

  • Humour Me – The Funny Side of Town

    Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New Zealand

    While television sitcoms, Instagram reels and Tik Tok videos are among the most popular forms of comedic entertainment today, the humble printed cartoon has been providing New Zealanders with quick laughs for more than 160 years. Although the popularity of cartoons has waxed and waned over the years, cartoonists have always been acute interpreters of…

  • Westerfield Camp – The Army Marches In

    Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New Zealand

    During periods of World War II, New Zealanders lived in fear of attack or invasion, first by the Germans and later by the Japanese. This exhibition explores the forgotten story of Westerfield Military Camp located 19km inland from Ashburton, established in 1941 to provide a mobile response to a feared invasion. In 1942, the Army…

  • Letters of Love | April School Holidays

    Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New Zealand

    Museum foyer, 10am - 4pm daily To coincide with our new exhibition Westerfield Camp – The Army Marches In, which explores the Home Front in Hakatere Ashburton during the Second World War, we are inviting tamariki and rangatahi to create hand-made postcards and write letters of love that will be delivered directly to Ukrainian refugee…

  • ANZAC – Make a Poppy

    Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New Zealand

    Learning Centre, 10am - 4pm, daily Commemorate the courage of our servicemen and women this ANZAC weekend by making a commemorative poppy. You can add your poppy to our wreath that will make its way to the Baring Square West cenotaph which is next door to the Art Gallery and Museum. All materials are supplied…

  • ANZAC Day kōrero: Defending Waitaha Canterbury during WWII

    Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New Zealand

    This ANZAC Day 25 April, join us in commemorating the New Zealanders who have served our country by visiting our timely new exhibition Westerfield Camp - The Army Marches In and attending a special 2pm kōrero about Westerfield Military Camp in Hakatere Ashburton and the Awaroa/Godley Head coastal defence battery near Lyttleton Harbour. These two…

  • Book Launch | Ashburton on the Move

    Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New Zealand

    Join us to celebrate the launch of Michael Hanrahan's new book, Ashburton on the Move - 150 years of relocating buildings in the Ashburton District.  Michael Hanrahan's new book will have an official launch on May 17 at 5.30pm at the Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum! This new book, published by the Ashburton Museum &…

  • Kōrero | Stories from the Canterbury Home Front during WWII

    Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New Zealand

    Join us for a kōrero with Angela Wanhalla, Professor of History at the University of Otago, about some of the lesser-known aspects of Canterbury’s WWII Home Front story. Stories from the Canterbury Home Front during WWII This illustrated talk will explore the women who married American servicemen, and their fate, through to Māori engagement in…

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