The New Brighton and District Historical Society and Museum is a local history museum at 8 Hardy Street in New Brighton, Christchurch. It has a Google rating of 4.6 from 23 reviews. The website says it is open from 1pm to 3pm, seven days a week, except public holidays.
Reviewers mention the friendly, knowledgeable volunteers and an exhibition on the 1974 Christchurch Commonwealth Games. The museum's collection covers social history across the eastern suburbs, with photographs, documents and recorded oral histories, and it runs a digital archive online. Volunteers are on hand to help visitors with displays and research.
For local history from the eastern suburbs, this museum on Hardy Street is a place where the volunteers know the stories behind the displays.