Dunedin Public Art Gallery in Dunedin, Dunedin, New Zealand | Art Gallery

Kia ora. Haere mai and welcome to the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand.

The Dunedin Public Art Gallery was established in 1884 during Dunedin’s goldrush boom and continues to flourish as one of New Zealand’s most significant art museums.  It houses a fine collection of European art, including paintings by Monet, Gainsborough, Turner, Rosa, Claude Lorraine, Burne-Jones and Tissot. The collection also features New Zealand art from 1860 to the present and we have significant holdings of Japanese prints and the decorative arts.

Dunedin Public Art Gallery maintains an impressive and varied programme of regularly changing exhibitions. This focuses strongly on the very best of local and New Zealand art, with touring overseas exhibitions and short-term artists’ residencies contributing an international component to the programme.

Dunedin Public Art Gallery presents a wide-ranging events programme of lectures, floor talks, film and video screenings, performances and workshops. Guided tours are available for key exhibitions or by arrangement.  Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s very popular education programme attracts school groups from all over the Otago region and beyond.

In 1996 Dunedin Public Art Gallery moved to a newly refurbished building in the heart of Dunedin city. The stunning architecture of the new space is superbly complemented by New Zealand sculptor Neil Dawson’s Cones, suspended high above the three-storey atrium. The atrium also houses the Gallery Shop and a New Zealand Film Archive site and gives access to the exhibition galleries and a variety of formal and informal social and activity spaces.