
Arranging Nature
This exhibition features works by artists and photographers including George Vernon Hudson, Nancy Adams, John Buchanan, Sarah Featon, Herbert Dobbie, and Ayesha Green.
Closed
23 Sep 2023 – 19 May 2024
Exhibition Ngā whakaaturanga
Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
Open every day 10am-6pm
(except Christmas Day)
Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
He huihuinga whakaaturanga hou e whakapuaki ai e ngā ringatoi me ngā kaihanga i ō rātou hononga ki te ao tūroa.
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A suite of new exhibitions where artists and makers express their relationships with the natural world.
Wayne Barrar,
This exhibition features works by artists and photographers including George Vernon Hudson, Nancy Adams, John Buchanan, Sarah Featon, Herbert Dobbie, and Ayesha Green.
Closed
23 Sep 2023 – 19 May 2024
Exhibition Ngā whakaaturanga
Diatoms are tiny organisms that live in oceans, rivers, and lakes. The 19th century saw a craze for arranging the silica skeleton fossils of diatoms and other micro-organisms on glass slides for viewing through microscopes. Photographer Wayne Barrar has delved into this ‘glass archive’ to explore its microscopic wonders.
Closed
23 Sep 2023 – 19 May 2024
Exhibition Ngā whakaaturanga
This exhibition demonstrates how artists and makers work with nature – using forms and materials to connect with knowledge and stories held in the natural world around us.
Closed
23 Sep 2023 – 19 May 2024
Exhibition Ngā whakaaturanga
Persian stories often begin with یکی بود یکی نبود (‘yeki bood, yeki nabood’), or ‘one was, one was not’. Here, artworks by Selina Ershadi and Pauline Rhodes explore ideas of presence and absence to tell stories about place and memory.
Closed
23 Sep 2023 – 19 May 2024
Exhibition Ngā whakaaturanga
This exhibition provides a broad experience of hīnaki (eel traps). As well as displaying these taonga, it focusses on two early museum expeditions, Māori relationships with two significant rivers, and contemporary artworks related or responding to hīnaki.
Closed
10 Jun 2023 – 19 May 2024
Exhibition Ngā whakaaturanga
This exhibition explores the different ways that artists in Aotearoa have expressed their relationship to the land – to the places we live in.
Closed
8 Oct 2022 – 19 May 2024
Exhibition Ngā whakaaturanga