Canterbury Museum

museum in Christchurch, New Zealand
Organization museum Q1033769
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Canterbury Museum

Summary

Canterbury Museum is a museum[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of museum entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (43 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Canterbury Museum is located in Christchurch City[3].
  • Canterbury Museum is in the country of New Zealand[4].
  • Canterbury Museum's image is recorded as CanterburyMuseum gobeirne.jpg[5].
  • Canterbury Museum's instance of is recorded as museum[6].
  • Canterbury Museum's instance of is recorded as nonprofit organization[7].
  • Canterbury Museum's architect is recorded as Benjamin Mountfort[8].
  • Canterbury Museum's founder is recorded as Julius von Haast[9].
  • Canterbury Museum's ISNI is recorded as 0000000122612209[10].
  • Canterbury Museum's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 130211267[11].
  • Canterbury Museum's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n86106026[12].
  • Canterbury Museum's Commons category is recorded as Canterbury Museum[13].
  • +1870-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Canterbury Museum[14].
  • +1882-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Canterbury Museum[15].
  • Canterbury Museum's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -43.5309, 'lon': 172.6271}[16].
  • Canterbury Museum's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06srm9[17].
  • Canterbury Museum's official website is recorded as http://www.canterburymuseum.com/[18].
  • Canterbury Museum's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+79'}[19].
  • Canterbury Museum's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+71'}[20].
  • Canterbury Museum's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+83'}[21].
  • Canterbury Museum's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+74'}[22].
  • Canterbury Museum's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+78'}[23].
  • Canterbury Museum's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+75'}[24].
  • Canterbury Museum's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+62'}[25].
  • Canterbury Museum's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+56'}[26].
  • Canterbury Museum's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+65'}[27].

Body

Founding

Canterbury Museum's founder is recorded as Julius von Haast[9]. Recorded inception include +1870-00-00T00:00:00Z[14] and +1882-00-00T00:00:00Z[15].

Why It Matters

Canterbury Museum ranks in the top 4% of museum entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (43 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . Charities Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . GRID Release 2017-01-10. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Japan Search. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . ROR release v1.19. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Charities Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Charities Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Charities Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Charities Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Charities Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Charities Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Charities Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Charities Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Charities Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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