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Wednesday, 21 July 2021, 4:47 pm
Ravenscar
House
The Ravenscar Trust has today
officially gifted Ravenscar House to Canterbury Museum which
will operate it as a house museum on behalf of the
Christchurch and Canterbury community.
The Museum will
now convert the house from a domestic dwelling to a visitor
attraction which is scheduled to open to the public in
October.
Ravenscar House Museum is the vision of
philanthropists, Jim and Dr Susan Wakefield, whose
Scarborough home was extensively damaged in the 22 February
2011 earthquakes.
The Wakefields began collecting art
in the early 1990s, amassing a collection of about 300
mainly New Zealand paintings and objects, ranging from the
Press Release – Canterbury Museum Cantabrians are invited to mark the 10-year anniversary of the 22 February 2011 earthquake with a free visit to Quake City, Canterbury Museums special exhibition about the Canterbury Earthquakes. img src ”https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2102/1ade51aa8377f2da5fae.jpeg” …
Cantabrians are invited to mark the 10-year anniversary of the 22 February 2011 earthquake with a free visit to
Quake City, Canterbury Museum’s special exhibition about the Canterbury Earthquakes.
Visitors test out the liquefaction simulator at
Quake City
Quake City will be waived on 22 February.
Quake City has had some updates ahead of the 10-year anniversary. Additions include a sculptural wall of orange road cones in the entryway and a slideshow of buildings, artworks and streetscapes showing how Ōtautahi Christchurch has changed in the decade since the earthquakes.