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The Canterbury Museum is a museum located in the central city of Christchurch, New Zealand, in the city's Cultural Precinct. [1] The museum was established in 1867 with Julius von Haast – whose collection formed its core – as its first director. [2] The building is registered as a "Historic Place – Category I" by Heritage New Zealand. [3]
CoCA began in 1880 as the Canterbury Society of Arts (CSA). It was the first organisation to exhibit and collect artworks in Christchurch, and quickly became the most influential and dynamic arts society in New Zealand.
The Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery, was an art gallery in the central city of Christchurch, New Zealand. It consisted of two buildings built in the late 1800s. [1] The buildings were demolished in 2012 due to damage from the Canterbury earthquakes. Benjamin Mountfort designed the first building in 1890, costing a total of £1,229.
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The site in the botanic gardens behind the Canterbury Museum was chosen. Building of the new gallery commenced in November 1930 and by April 1932 it was near completion when funds ran low. Robert McDougall supplemented his original gift enabling the completion of the gallery at a total cost of £31,000. [2]
It was located in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, adjacent to Canterbury Museum, where the building still stands unused, as of 2019. [5] Christchurch City Council committed funds to buying land for a new gallery in 1995 and purchased the Christchurch Art Gallery site in 1996. A competition to design the new gallery was launched in 1998. [6]
In the 1977 Queen's Silver Jubilee and Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services as director of the Canterbury Museum since 1948. [4] In the 1960s he helped raise his nephew, writer Alan Duff. [5] In 1969 Duff participated in the Cook Bicentenary Expedition undertaking archaeological ...
Nina Oberg Humphries (born 1990) is a New Zealand multimedia artist and Pacific arts advocate and multimedia artist of Cook Islands descent. [1] [2] [3] Born in Christchurch in 1990, Oberg Humphries graduated from Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury in 2015.