Quake City is something I briefly mentioned in another blog post it is one of the new attractions to Christchurch, and run by the Canterbury Museum. You can find more info here I think it opened around 15th of Feb, just before the second anniversary of the earthquake. It is in a purpose built building, so my guess is that it may stay for a little while. It costs $10 for adults to get in, and perhaps $8 if you are a student, which isn’t bad as we ended up staying for about 2 hours in the place.
I won’t go into a lot of detail about the Museum itself as I don’t want to spoil it, but it basically has a number of different artefacts from the earthquake; things that were salvaged. As well as stories from local people who were caught up in the quakes, lots of scientific facts as to why we have earthquakes, and information about the rebuild.
For the rest of this day I ended up doing my monthly tour of the city. I normally like to have a walk around the city every month to see the changes. I do end up taking a lot of photos and adding them to my Facebook page, or the odd one on here, but I really ought to put them together in a better order as a comparison with one another. One day
It is amazing how much the City can change in a matter of days sometimes. I did read on the local rag website Stuff about how our Earthquake Minister Gerry Brownlee is now calling the CBD ‘red zone’ (as it once was) the ‘rebuild zone’. Very exciting. Apparently the cordon (fencing around most of the CBD) will completely come down by the end of June! I am looking forward to this, as it means people can start to get on with their lives.
In other Christchurch rebuild news, the Gondola is now open, and has been since March 25th. I have yet to go on it, but apparently it offers really good views of the Banks Peninsula and Lyttelton, that is if you don’t fancy a hike up the Port Hills to see it for free.
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