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South Canterbury Museum

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South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
South Canterbury Museum
Phone:
+64 3-687 7212

Hours:
Sunday1pm - 4:30pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 4:30pm
Wednesday10am - 4:30pm
Thursday10am - 4:30pm
Friday10am - 4:30pm
Saturday1pm - 4:30pm


Pleasant Point is a small country town in southern Canterbury, New Zealand, some 19 km inland from Timaru, on State Highway 8. It is a service town for the surrounding farming district. One of its main attractions is the heritage railway, the Pleasant Point Museum and Railway, which operates steam locomotives and one of only two Model T Ford railcar replicas in the world. It attracts about 10,000 people a year. For almost one hundred years, the Fairlie branch line railway passed through the town. It closed on 2 March 1968, and the heritage line utilises 2.5 km of track along the branch's old route. Pleasant Point is also known for glassblowing, taxidermy, blacksmithing and custard squares, and Māori rock art can be viewed nearby. Vineyards have also been established in the area. It also has two primary schools, a preschool and a play centre. Pleasant Point High School was closed by the Labour government in 2004. It has two rivers nearby, the Opihi and the TeNgawai; the two rivers meet just to the north of the town. A 1901 census placed the town's population at 749; by 2013 the population had nearly doubled, to 1,310.
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