What’s On
Edith Amituanai and Sione Tuívailala Monū: Toloa Tales
New video works trace migratory threads across Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa as the artists return to their ancestral homeland.
Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills
A major survey exhibition of Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa and Ngāti Kahu artist Marilynn Webb.
From Here on the Ground
Populated places and cityscapes converge with backyards, factories and remote railway stops. Open now!
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
Chase the blues away
The first day back at work after a holiday is always a bit rubbish isn't it. And today is no exception, particularly when you add to the general post-festive blues the new layer of plaster dust and earthquake-related detritus that this particular break generated.
Plus ça change...
Petrus van der Velden brilliantly captured the Canterbury nor'wester back in the 1890s
Down the rabbit hole
As we all know through the apocryphal grapevine, it's not where your house is, or what it's made of that determines the likely effects of seismic movement.
Happy New Year
The Ancient Romans dedicated this day to their two-faced god Janus – the deity of gates, doors and beginnings.
Piss off 2011
Our good friends at Strategy Design and Advertising produced this wrapping paper for the festive season. We couldn't have put it better ourselves.
A poet in our midst
Portrait of an Unknown Man – one of the earliest portraits in the collection – has recently been identified as a portrait of the seventeenth century English poet Edmund Waller (1606–1687).
Where in the world is our next outer space?
Now that Wayne's mural in Sydenham is complete, its time to look at our next Outer Space.
Sweet Caroline
I've enjoyed Albert James Rae's moody mezzotint landscapes and finely observed and etched portraits since a large folio of his work was acquired for the collection in 2001.