Day 5. Christchurch Culture

 Our last real day in Christchurch, so we thought we'd explore so local things we'd missed so far. Fortunately, being a small place, everything was within a few blocks of us.

The first stop was the earthquake museum. This was pretty small, but had videos, explainers about how earthquakes work etc and some memorabilia from the events 15 years ago. This was all decent quality, but I'm not sure it warranted the $25 admission - though I suppose that's what everything costs now.

Next was the temporary museum - while the main museum is being rebuilt. So it is smaller and just had a few highlight exhibits. There was also a decent exhibition about dinosaurs. It was mostly casts rather than actual fossils, but that doesn't really make much difference.

After this we went to the art centre just a block or so away. This had some galleries and a number of shops. We ended up buying a few things, so we had a light lunch and then took the bags back to the hotel to drop them off and have a break.

Art Centre Courtyard

In the afternoon we went back to the botanic gardens. These aren'y very big but were quite pleasant with some good collections.

Sequoia

That was about it, we walked back to the hotel satisfied with our day.


Location: 351 Montreal Street, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand

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