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Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu is the largest art institution in the South Island and home to one of New Zealand's most important public art collections.

Located in the heart of the city's Cultural Precinct, our Maori name, Te Puna o Waiwhetu, relates to the life-giving properties of the artesian spring on which the Gallery is built and our role in contributing to the cultural wellbeing of the community.

Opening Hours

Due to the Christchurch earthquake the Gallery building is closed. We are undertaking repairs and hope to reopen in mid 2014. Find out more here.

In the meantime, we're taking art to the streets with the Outer Spaces, and we're exhibiting at 212 Madras Street and 209 Tuam Street (open 10am - 5pm, Monday to Friday, 10am - 4pm, Saturday and Sunday).

Before you
arrive

How do you plan on travelling to the Gallery?

By Bus

Both 209 Tuam Street and 212 Madras Street are close to bus stops.

23 Hyde Park / Woolston; 3 Airport / Sumner; 40 Middleton / Wainoni; 5 Hornby Southshore; 7 Hallswell / Queenspark; 21 Ilam / Mt Pleasant; 60 Hillmorton / Parklands

Visit Metroinfo for other bus timetables and also for a map of city centre bus routes.
Driving / Car Parking

Gloucester Street (between Durham and Montreal Streets)
Telephone: (64 3) 941 7350

Charges are $1.25 per half hour or part thereof.

Hours: Monday to Friday 7.30am – 11.45 pm Saturday 9am – 11.45pm Sunday 9am – 5.45pm

Christchurch City Council provides parking facilities beneath the Gallery, which are accessed off Gloucester Street.

There are five mobility spaces. Clearance height is 2.2 metres.
Walking

The Gallery building is situated on the corner of Worcester Boulevard and Montreal Street, one block east towards Cathedral Square from the Botanic Gardens.

209 Tuam Street is on the corner of High and Tuam Streets, a short walk east from the new bus exchange.

212 Madras Street is above NG and The National, just a block south of the Cardboard Cathedral.
Cycling

Good on you! There are plenty of places to chain up your bike outside both 209 Tuam Street and 212 Madras Street.