Belfast District Museum
Belfast History & Genealogy
Canterbury
New Zealand

Belfast District Museum

History of Museum

The Belfast District Museum was constructed in 1985, and the building was opened in October of that year by Margaret Murray, Chairman of the Waimairi District Council. The front of the building was constructed to be in keeping with the historic schoolmaster's house (to its left in the photograph) which was built more than a century earlier, in 1877.

The Museum was operated from 1985 to 2006 by a sub-committee of the Kapuatohe Historic Reserve Management Committee.

It is now operated by the Belfast District Museum Trust (Inc) which was incorporated in 2007. The Museum is open on the first Sunday of the month, from September to May, from 2 pm to 4 pm, or by arrangement.

Holdings

The Museum houses hundreds of objects from the history of the Belfast district. These include a 1928 Chevrolet car. It also has a collection of almost 1,800 photographs, many of which are available for sale as image files on CD through our affiliate, the Styx History Group, at a reasonable cost.