Ashburton Museum

Ashburton Museum is the leading culture and heritage destination for the Mid-Canterbury region of New Zealand. Managed by the Ashburton District Council, it cares for community archives, heritage collections and a civic art collection, with a photographic archive of more than 5,000 prints and thousands of negatives dating from the 1870s. The museum's permanent exhibition traces the development of the Ashburton District from earliest occupation to the present day, alongside a year-round programme of temporary exhibitions across five special exhibition spaces.