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Tairāwhiti Museum is a 5-minute walk from the CBD, across Peel Street Bridge and through Kelvin Park. There is free parking on Stout Street.
Opening Hours
- Monday – Saturday 10am – 4pm
- Sunday and Public Holidays 1:30pm – 4:00pm
- Closed – Easter Friday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day
Admission
- Adults $5 (12 years and under and Friends of the Museum free entry)
- Free entry every day for local residents!
Exhibit Cafe
- Monday – Friday 8.30am to 2.00pm, Saturday 9.30am – 12.30pm, closed Sundays.
What’s Happening at the Museum
Exhibitions
Gisborne Artists, Potters & Photographers
Opening: 02/08/19 5:30 pm
This year the annual ‘Artists’ and Potters’ exhibition will soon become a winning trifecta with the addition of the Gisborne Camera Club. Local photographers will now combine their pictorial imagery with paintings, prints and ceramics submitted by the affiliated groups from Lysnar House Studio for their yearly exhibition. The Gisborne Camera Club is an established... Read more »
Whakawhetai -Melanie Tangaere Baldwin
Opening: 26/07/19 5:30 pm
A solo exhibition of new works by Melanie Tangaere Baldwin, Ngāti Porou. This exhibition explores the insipid notion – most often espoused on online ‘Comments’ boards – that Māori should be grateful for having been colonised. The works take a kind of tongue in cheek approach to accepting this ideology as fact, while simultaneously attempting... Read more »
Ko Ahau – This is Me – Walter Dewes
Opening: 19/07/19 5:30 pm
I love painting and creating. I can’t imagine not producing artwork, for myself, for friends and for family. I’ve painted for over 30 years now, and I am still learning new things. It will never get old for me, there’s always something to create, a new design or a weird idea – inspiration comes from... Read more »
The Self Portraits of Carol Montgomery
Opening: 12/07/19 10:00 am
To my knowledge, this is the first exhibition of self portraits to be held at Tairāwhiti Museum. It is my first solo exhibition and includes my first self portrait which was also my first oil painting and my first exhibit. The works exhibited are in graphite, pastel and oils and cover the years 1980-2015. They... Read more »
Posing, Not Posing
Opening: 26/11/18 10:00 am
Long before smartphones, selfie sticks and one-swipe filters, having your ‘perfect’ picture taken took practice, preparation and plenty of posing. Early cameras and photographic materials required the sitter to be still for many seconds. While this is often given as the reason for a lack of smiles, a more likely reason is that early portrait... Read more »
The Star of Canada
Explore the two-storied wheel- house and captain’s cabin of the Star of Canada, a cargo steamer wrecked on rocks on the Gisborne foreshore on 23 June 1912. Built at Belfast in October 1909 by Messrs Workman Clark and Co, the Star of Canada was a twin screw general cargo steamer of 7,280 tons gross (12,000... Read more »
Events
Lazarus String Quartet
Tairāwhiti Museum hosts the Lazarus String Quartet on their NZ Tour 2019. The quartet will speak about and perform the following programme: MOZART STRING QUARTET NO. 16 K428 BEETHOVEN STRING QUARTET OP 18 NO 6 Adults $5.00 Students with ID and children FREE Purchase tickets at the door, limited seating available Lazarus String Quartet With... Read more »
Winter concert series – Xing Wang (piano) and James Jin (violin)
Join us at the museum for performances by some of New Zealand’s finest young musicians from Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music Sun 8 Sept, 2pm Xing Wang (piano) & James Jin (violin) $5 adults, children & students with ID free – pay on the day James and Xing’s programme for this concert combines... Read more »
Music for Intimate Spaces
Step away from the recital hall and towards the more intimate spaces of our place. Curated by Mere Boynton in partnership with Tairāwhiti Museum, Music for Intimate Spaces is a situational musical installation. Move through spaces at your own leisure and enjoy the sounds and music of place and time as musicians enliven the C... Read more »
Music for Intimate Spaces
Step away from the recital hall and towards the more intimate spaces of our place. Curated by Mere Boynton in partnership with Tairāwhiti Museum, Music for Intimate Spaces is a situational musical installation. Move through spaces at your own leisure and enjoy the sounds and music of place and time as musicians enliven the C... Read more »
