Quake City
Earthquake museum holding the fallen cathedral spire tip, station clocks and relics of the 2011 quakes.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Quake City in Christchurch is built around one object: the top of the ChristChurch Cathedral spire, now resting under a museum roof. It follows the cathedral through the Canterbury earthquakes of two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven, and turns to the everyday objects that filled the city in the months after. Best heard standing beside the spire.
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