Museums Aotearoa, the professional organization for New Zealand museums and related professionals, has started to post status updates from various area cultural repositories about their status since the February 22, 2011 earthquake near Christchurch.
The February 2011 6.3 magnitude earthquake is considered an aftershock of the September 2010 7.1 magnitude earthquake, centered about 20 miles away and also damaged cultural buildings. The region has experienced periodic seismic activity since then, with at least seven aftershocks with magnitudes over 4.
Read the Canterbury Earthquake Museum Update blog on the Museums Aotearoa website.
Museums Aotearoa also has a Facebook page that is actively being updated.
AIC has offered the assistance of the Collections Emergency Response Team.
