New Zealand artists and their works are receiving increasing recognition on the international stage.
Galleries around New Zealand hold exhibitions that feature the works of nationally and internationally acclaimed artists, as well as fresh, new talent.
Historical artworks are mostly held in the collections of the larger museums and public libraries in the main cities.
There are also more than 460 museums around the country, many doubling as art galleries, ranging from specialist regional collections to the impressive national museum Te Papa Tongarewa (Our Place) in Wellington.
NOTE: The Christchurch Art Gallery, historic Arts Centre and Canterbury Museum are closed to visitors until further notice.
Wellesley / Kitchener streets, Auckland
Auckland Art Gallery houses New Zealand’s most significant collection of local and European art. Early New Zealand landscapes, as well as portraits of Māori people by Charles Goldie and Gottfried Lindauer, are of special interest. Opened in 1888, the Auckland Art Gallery was New Zealand’s first permanent art gallery. It holds more than 10,000 works in two buildings. The new gallery focuses on contemporary New Zealand art, and includes modernist artist Colin McCahon.
Gow Langsford Gallery
Kitchener / Wellesley streets, Auckland
Opposite the Auckland Art Gallery, the Gow Langsford Gallery exhibits both contemporary New Zealand paintings and sculpture, as well as international works.
Lopdell House Gallery
Titirangi / South Titirangi roads, Waitakere City, Auckland
The Lopdell House Gallery, about 35mins from central Auckland, is a public art gallery that presents annually about 10 exhibitions of contemporary New Zealand art. The gallery also profiles local artists who are of national significance, and is situated in the scenic Waitakere Ranges.
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Queen Street, New Plymouth
Opened in 1970, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery was New Zealand’s first contemporary art gallery. The Govett-Brewster has a permanent collection that includes an internationally significant collection of works by Len Lye.
National Library Gallery
Molesworth / Aitken streets, Thorndon, Wellington
Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa / the National Library of New Zealand is located opposite New Zealand's Parliament Buildings, and is one of the country’s leading cultural and information centres. As well as library material, there are public exhibitions of heritage collections. Murals and works of art from the library’s contemporary art collection are also on show.
Wellington City Gallery
Civic Square, Wellington
Wellington's City Gallery has forged a reputation for challenging and innovative exhibitions of art, architecture and design, presenting significant New Zealand artists alongside major international figures. It is closed for a major renovation, and due to reopen in spring 2009.
Dowse Art Museum
35 Laings Road, Lower Hutt
The Dowse Art Museum holds more than 20 exhibitions a year covering New Zealand and overseas crafts. Six separate gallery spaces, including a large museum wing, cater for a diverse array of exhibition content - ceramics, glass, textiles, wood, metal and furniture, photography and paintings.
Grove Mill Winery
Waihopai Valley Rd, Marlborough
The Grove Mill Winery art gallery is set in magnificent scenery adjacent to a natural wetlands, home to southern bell frogs, pukekos and shags.
Arts Centre of Christchurch [CLOSED]
2 Worcester Boulevard, Christchurch
Located in the historic Gothic revival buildings of the original Canterbury University, the Christchurch Arts Centre is a significant cultural attraction. It offers more than 40 craft studios, galleries and shops, theatres, cinemas, cafes, restaurants and bars and weekend markets. The centre is home to Te Toi Mana Gallery, a cooperative of Māori and Pacific artists. This is the site where Ernest Rutherford (a renowned New Zealand scientist, the father of nuclear physics) studied and conducted early experiments.
Christchurch Art Gallery - Te Puna o Wai Whetu [CLOSED]
Rolleston Avenue, ChristchurchChristchurch Art Gallery is housed in a visually dramatic purpose-built neo classical / art deco building in the Botanic Gardens. Collections include works of historical European art, 20th century New Zealand and contemporary painting.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
30 The Octagon, Dunedin
Dunedin Public Art Gallery was founded in 1884 by William Mathew Hodgkins - cultural activist, artist, and father of famous New Zealand painter Frances Hodgkins. It houses an important collection of New Zealand works from 1860 until modern day, including works by Frances Hodgkins. The gallery also has significant holdings of historical European art, Japanese prints, and decorative arts.
Cable Street, Wellington
New Zealand’s national museum, Te Papa Tongarewa, opened in 1998 on Wellington's waterfront. The museum, a celebration of New Zealand’s identity - the people, culture and environment, features hi-tech and traditional displays. As well as significant collections of New Zealand art, the 16,000-plus taonga / treasures looked after by Te Papa are the largest Māori collection in any museum and cover a broad spectrum of Māori art and culture, from revered and significant cultural heirlooms through to humble everyday items dating from early pre-European times to today.
Auckland War Memorial Museum
Auckland Domain, AucklandAuckland Museum is one of New Zealand’s best-known historic buildings. The war memorial reflects on New Zealand’s part in the wars of the world, while the museum provides a window on cultural and natural history including a fine collection of Māori treasures and Polynesian artefacts.
Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT)
Great North Road, Western Springs, Auckland
MOTAT - Museum of Transport and Technology - opened in 1964, and is the largest museum of transport, technology and social history in New Zealand. It houses a number of outstanding collections.
New Zealand National Maritime Museum
Quay / Hobson streets, Auckland
The National Maritime Museum celebrates New Zealand’s maritime heritage and the voyaging traditions and craft of the Pacific. Galleries tell the story of peoples whose lives were forever linked to the sea. In Māori, its name is Te Huiteananui-a-Tangaroa, the legendary house belonging to Tangaroa, Māori god of the sea.
Rotorua Museum of Art and History
Te Whare Taonga o Te ArawaRotorua Museum occupies a distinctivee tudor style building near the shores of Lake Rotorua. The original bathhouse building, that first opened in 1908, houses many significant Māori taonga / treasures that are of national and international historical significance. It also holds a fine arts collection and a photographic collection containing more than 70,000 photographic images depicting Rotorua's past.
Taupo District Museum of Art & History
Story Place, Taupo
Three art galleries house the Taupo Museum's art collection and changing art exhibitions. For the dedicated angler, the main exhibition hall displays permanent small exhibitions on trout fishing and Lake Taupo charter boats. There is an Early Settlers exhibition, and the Nga Taonga Maori room houses carvings and Maori artefacts. The grounds include a recreation of New Zealand's Chelsea Flower Show (2004) award-winning '100% Pure New Zealand Ora - garden of wellbeing'.
Hawke's Bay Museum
Herschell Street / Marine Parade, Napier
A combined museum and art gallery, the Hawke's Bay Museum has a broad collection with a special emphasis on Hawke's Bay history, especially the 1931 earthquake, as well as historical and contemporary art.
Canterbury Museum [CLOSED]
Rolleston Avenue, Christchurch
Canterbury Museum is a major New Zealand regional museum that holds almost two million collection items. The collections cover a wide range of topics including Canterbury’s first people, the moa hunter Māori and their descendants, the European settlers' cultural and economic development and local history. Highlights include the Mountfort Gallery of European Decorative Arts and Costume. The Museum is adjacent to the Botanic Gardens, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, and the Arts Centre.
Otago Museum
419 Great King Street, Dunedin
Otago Museum contains comprehensive displays of Māori and Pacific heritage, especially Southern Māori culture. There is an excellent New Zealand natural history collection - from penguins to the extinct giant moa, fish, birds and insects.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery
Queens Park, 108 Gala Street, Invercargill
Southland Museum and Art Gallery is located in the largest pyramid building in the southern hemisphere.The musuem has one of the largest living collections of tuatara in its highly successful breeding facility.
Galleries around New Zealand hold exhibitions that feature the works of nationally and internationally acclaimed artists, as well as fresh, new talent.
Historical artworks are mostly held in the collections of the larger museums and public libraries in the main cities.
There are also more than 460 museums around the country, many doubling as art galleries, ranging from specialist regional collections to the impressive national museum Te Papa Tongarewa (Our Place) in Wellington.
NOTE: The Christchurch Art Gallery, historic Arts Centre and Canterbury Museum are closed to visitors until further notice.
New Zealand art galleries
Auckland Art GalleryWellesley / Kitchener streets, Auckland
Auckland Art Gallery houses New Zealand’s most significant collection of local and European art. Early New Zealand landscapes, as well as portraits of Māori people by Charles Goldie and Gottfried Lindauer, are of special interest. Opened in 1888, the Auckland Art Gallery was New Zealand’s first permanent art gallery. It holds more than 10,000 works in two buildings. The new gallery focuses on contemporary New Zealand art, and includes modernist artist Colin McCahon.
Gow Langsford Gallery
Kitchener / Wellesley streets, Auckland
Opposite the Auckland Art Gallery, the Gow Langsford Gallery exhibits both contemporary New Zealand paintings and sculpture, as well as international works.
Lopdell House Gallery
Titirangi / South Titirangi roads, Waitakere City, Auckland
The Lopdell House Gallery, about 35mins from central Auckland, is a public art gallery that presents annually about 10 exhibitions of contemporary New Zealand art. The gallery also profiles local artists who are of national significance, and is situated in the scenic Waitakere Ranges.
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Queen Street, New Plymouth
Opened in 1970, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery was New Zealand’s first contemporary art gallery. The Govett-Brewster has a permanent collection that includes an internationally significant collection of works by Len Lye.
National Library Gallery
Molesworth / Aitken streets, Thorndon, Wellington
Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa / the National Library of New Zealand is located opposite New Zealand's Parliament Buildings, and is one of the country’s leading cultural and information centres. As well as library material, there are public exhibitions of heritage collections. Murals and works of art from the library’s contemporary art collection are also on show.
Wellington City Gallery
Civic Square, Wellington
Wellington's City Gallery has forged a reputation for challenging and innovative exhibitions of art, architecture and design, presenting significant New Zealand artists alongside major international figures. It is closed for a major renovation, and due to reopen in spring 2009.
Dowse Art Museum
35 Laings Road, Lower Hutt
The Dowse Art Museum holds more than 20 exhibitions a year covering New Zealand and overseas crafts. Six separate gallery spaces, including a large museum wing, cater for a diverse array of exhibition content - ceramics, glass, textiles, wood, metal and furniture, photography and paintings.
Grove Mill Winery
Waihopai Valley Rd, Marlborough
The Grove Mill Winery art gallery is set in magnificent scenery adjacent to a natural wetlands, home to southern bell frogs, pukekos and shags.
Arts Centre of Christchurch [CLOSED]
2 Worcester Boulevard, Christchurch
Located in the historic Gothic revival buildings of the original Canterbury University, the Christchurch Arts Centre is a significant cultural attraction. It offers more than 40 craft studios, galleries and shops, theatres, cinemas, cafes, restaurants and bars and weekend markets. The centre is home to Te Toi Mana Gallery, a cooperative of Māori and Pacific artists. This is the site where Ernest Rutherford (a renowned New Zealand scientist, the father of nuclear physics) studied and conducted early experiments.
Christchurch Art Gallery - Te Puna o Wai Whetu [CLOSED]
Rolleston Avenue, ChristchurchChristchurch Art Gallery is housed in a visually dramatic purpose-built neo classical / art deco building in the Botanic Gardens. Collections include works of historical European art, 20th century New Zealand and contemporary painting.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
30 The Octagon, Dunedin
Dunedin Public Art Gallery was founded in 1884 by William Mathew Hodgkins - cultural activist, artist, and father of famous New Zealand painter Frances Hodgkins. It houses an important collection of New Zealand works from 1860 until modern day, including works by Frances Hodgkins. The gallery also has significant holdings of historical European art, Japanese prints, and decorative arts.
New Zealand museums
Te Papa Tongarewa - Musuem of New ZealandCable Street, Wellington
New Zealand’s national museum, Te Papa Tongarewa, opened in 1998 on Wellington's waterfront. The museum, a celebration of New Zealand’s identity - the people, culture and environment, features hi-tech and traditional displays. As well as significant collections of New Zealand art, the 16,000-plus taonga / treasures looked after by Te Papa are the largest Māori collection in any museum and cover a broad spectrum of Māori art and culture, from revered and significant cultural heirlooms through to humble everyday items dating from early pre-European times to today.
Auckland War Memorial Museum
Auckland Domain, AucklandAuckland Museum is one of New Zealand’s best-known historic buildings. The war memorial reflects on New Zealand’s part in the wars of the world, while the museum provides a window on cultural and natural history including a fine collection of Māori treasures and Polynesian artefacts.
Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT)
Great North Road, Western Springs, Auckland
MOTAT - Museum of Transport and Technology - opened in 1964, and is the largest museum of transport, technology and social history in New Zealand. It houses a number of outstanding collections.
New Zealand National Maritime Museum
Quay / Hobson streets, Auckland
The National Maritime Museum celebrates New Zealand’s maritime heritage and the voyaging traditions and craft of the Pacific. Galleries tell the story of peoples whose lives were forever linked to the sea. In Māori, its name is Te Huiteananui-a-Tangaroa, the legendary house belonging to Tangaroa, Māori god of the sea.
Rotorua Museum of Art and History
Te Whare Taonga o Te ArawaRotorua Museum occupies a distinctivee tudor style building near the shores of Lake Rotorua. The original bathhouse building, that first opened in 1908, houses many significant Māori taonga / treasures that are of national and international historical significance. It also holds a fine arts collection and a photographic collection containing more than 70,000 photographic images depicting Rotorua's past.
Taupo District Museum of Art & History
Story Place, Taupo
Three art galleries house the Taupo Museum's art collection and changing art exhibitions. For the dedicated angler, the main exhibition hall displays permanent small exhibitions on trout fishing and Lake Taupo charter boats. There is an Early Settlers exhibition, and the Nga Taonga Maori room houses carvings and Maori artefacts. The grounds include a recreation of New Zealand's Chelsea Flower Show (2004) award-winning '100% Pure New Zealand Ora - garden of wellbeing'.
Hawke's Bay Museum
Herschell Street / Marine Parade, Napier
A combined museum and art gallery, the Hawke's Bay Museum has a broad collection with a special emphasis on Hawke's Bay history, especially the 1931 earthquake, as well as historical and contemporary art.
Canterbury Museum [CLOSED]
Rolleston Avenue, Christchurch
Canterbury Museum is a major New Zealand regional museum that holds almost two million collection items. The collections cover a wide range of topics including Canterbury’s first people, the moa hunter Māori and their descendants, the European settlers' cultural and economic development and local history. Highlights include the Mountfort Gallery of European Decorative Arts and Costume. The Museum is adjacent to the Botanic Gardens, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, and the Arts Centre.
Otago Museum
419 Great King Street, Dunedin
Otago Museum contains comprehensive displays of Māori and Pacific heritage, especially Southern Māori culture. There is an excellent New Zealand natural history collection - from penguins to the extinct giant moa, fish, birds and insects.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery
Queens Park, 108 Gala Street, Invercargill
Southland Museum and Art Gallery is located in the largest pyramid building in the southern hemisphere.The musuem has one of the largest living collections of tuatara in its highly successful breeding facility.
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