A visual treat awaits you when visiting the Old Bank Arcade. On the hour, this marvelous musical clock opens like pedestals of a blooming flower to reveal historic scenes of Wellington’s Harbour and Plimmer’s Ark. This 1848 Canadian sailing ship was originally called Inconstant. After being shipwrecked in Willington Harbour in 1849, John Plimmer converted the hull into a wharf and renamed it Plimmer’s Ark. During an 1855 earthquake, the waterfront expanded and the ship’s remains became landlocked. It was then buried under the foundation of the Bank of New Zealand in 1901. The hull was rediscovered in 1997. The salvaged ship can be seen beneath glass within the Bank Vaults of the Old Bank Arcade.