To celebrate our exhibition In Plain Site: Memorials and their stories, join us for a special lunchtime walking tour exploring some of the historic memorial sites featured in the display.…

In this Cultural Awareness session, you will learn about Fijian culture and discuss basic social protocols to help you interact with clients, whānau, and friends. The session will be led…

Join us for an interesting ANZAC Day talk by Social History Curator Louisa Hormann and Archivist Connor Lysaght, who will delve into a collection of letters written by two local…

Join us for the opening of three new exhibitions! Presenting previously unseen or rarely seen works, Ian Scott: Painting New Zealand brings together a selection of Ian Scott’s work from…

Join our Art Curator James Hope and artist Noel Meek in a Q&A session about his new exhibition. the cuckoo sings for me, for the mountain, a speculative story about…

To celebrate our new exhibition Documenting our Heritage: Mid & South Canterbury, Heritage New Zealand’s Senior Heritage Advisor for Canterbury/West Coast, Robyn Burgess, will give an illustrated talk about the…

Join us for a practical workshop led by archivist Connor Lysaght, where you will be introduced to methods for identifying various types of historic photographs, best‑practice approaches for their storage,…

After stitching a textile panel representing Whakatere Ashburton for a project lead by the Tapestry Trust NZ in 2019, the Ashburton Embroiderers’ Guild now have the opportunity to support the…

The Ashburton Family History Group have spent many years researching the Mid Canterbury women who signed the suffrage petition. At this special talk, we will hear about their findings and…

Join us for an artist talk with Kara Burrowes and Charrette van Eekelen, Ōtautahi Christchurch-based artists who see the night as a psychologically charged space where memory, emotion, and uncertainty…