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2019-01-22 01:01
in Museums, Ntrips, Trips
Christchurch's Canterbury Museum has a very good central museum with multiple sections all worth seeing.
The section on Mauri started with their early lives:
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sadly they hunted the Moa to extinction
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They had a very nice section on their sacred stone, the Kura Pounamu:
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One corner had a nice section on a house filled with pretty shells:
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Another section showed the old streets:
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The 2nd floor talked about the antarctic expeditions that have been launched from NZ's Christchurch:
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Other random sections:
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![the Kakapo, the world's biggest parrot, is quite cute the Kakapo, the world's biggest parrot, is quite cute](/blogimg/13/thumb1024_213_20190122_Canterbury_Museum.jpg)
the Kakapo, the world's biggest parrot, is quite cute
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All it all, it was worth a good 4H, and was well worth a good donation (entrance is free) |