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Ravenscar is a newly opened house museum in the central-city arts precinct in Christchurch, a gift to the city from Jim and Susan Wakefield, philanthropists who love their home town. The story of the new museum, told with efficiency and clarity by Sally Blundell, is the subject of (Canterbury University Press, Christchurch 2022), and is made up of many threads, which come together to produce a uniquely Christchurch

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