Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
The Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is the largest art gallery in New Zealand, with a collection of more than 15,000 works of local and international art.
The Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is the largest art gallery in New Zealand, with a collection of more than 15,000 works of local and international art. It is housed in a beautiful French Renaissance building from 1887, with the entrance below a paneled canopy made from kauri wood.
The Auckland Art Gallery displays an unparalleled array of historic, modern and contemporary New Zealand art, as well as work by Māori and Pacific Island artists. Highlights of the native collection are Paratene Matchitt’s modernist Maori works, Ani O’Neill’s There’s No Place Like Home, Tony Fomison’s The Ponsonby Madonna, Fatu Feu'u’s Masina le Sogi, Gottfried Lindauer’s Tamati Waka Nene, Colin McCahon’s The Marys at the Tomb, Gretchen Albrecht’s Horsemen, and Laurence Aberhart’s black and white photography. Also on display are European works including William Blake’s engravings, Raphael’s oils and engravings, and Renoir’s lithographs.
Free hour long tours of the gallery are available at 11.30 am and 1.30 pm daily.
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About Auckland Art Gallery
Auckland Art Gallery, Corner Kitchener and Wellesley Sts, Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
+64 9 307-7700
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