Belfast District Museum is a former museum in Belfast, Christchurch 8051, rated 5.0 from 1 review. It was run from 2007 to 2013 by the Belfast District Museum Trust for Christchurch City Council, and it closed after earthquake damage in 2011. The photograph collection is now online through Canterbury Stories, showing residents, families, social life and businesses from the late nineteenth to mid twentieth century. Named collections include the Devonvale Dairy, the Kaputone wool works, Borthwick & Sons freezing works and the Zealandia Soap and Candle Works. The former museum stood beside the Old Schoolmaster's House, built in 1877, on the Kapuatohe Historic Reserve. For anyone interested in Belfast's history, the online photographs are a useful place to start, though the museum itself is no longer open.