ABSTRACT
The home page of almost every art museum leads with information about exhibitions, forthcoming events and contact details. At a little more than 6,000 items, the gallery’s art collection is relatively small. When the gallery building opened in 2003, it was accompanied by a traditional art gallery website: information on location, exhibits and events. In September 2010, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake caused widespread damage to buildings throughout Christchurch. However, that first quake was just a taste of what was to come. The gallery closed and again became the hub for the earthquake recovery. Between 2013 and 2015, major gallery repairs were done, including relevelling and the retrofitting of base isolators. The website is the primary driver of content for the gallery, overtaking the importance of the printed Bulletin. The gallery has an orthodox system of budget cycles and key performance indicators dictated by its principal funder and many of activities are perfectly conventional.
