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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
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