Easter hours: the museum will be closed on Good Friday and open from 1.30 – 4 on other public holidays. Exhibit Cafe will be closed from 19th to 27th April and will re-open on Monday 29th April.
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
Hei Ora
Opening: 05/04/19 5:30 am
An exhibition of recent works by Henare Brooking. Hei Ora is a unique, diverse and vibrant exhibition of works that showcase the living, evolving and continual development of both traditional and contemporary Māori Arts. Hei Ora is also a reflection of the underlined reality of living life as an artist; being passionate about your cultural... Read more »
OHO
Opening: 29/03/19 5:30 pm
An exhibition of recent works by Fiona Collis, Melanie Tahata, Izzy Te Rauna. OHO is the awakening of creative energies experienced by each of the three exhibiting artists in the last two years. Izzy Te Rauna discovered a passion for tukutuku. Fiona Collis has gone back to her traditional weaving roots and her passion for... Read more »
Fruits of a Splendid Isolation
Opening: 22/03/19 5:30 pm
In an eddy, a side-pool off the mainstream, a light shone on a quartet of friends who drew, painted and created, individually and as a group, over a period of fifty years. They grew with an East Coast flavour, untethered to any school or style, that leaned towards the dynamic, figurative and expressive, revelling in... 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 »
Jack C Richards Decorative Arts Gallery
The Jack C Richards gallery is primarily devoted to the display of twentieth century and contemporary decorative and fine arts. Some of the oldest works on display in the gallery are Émile Gallé’s floral glass vases, dating from around 1900. Gallé (1846 – 1904) was a French artist at the forefront of the emerging Art... Read more »
Mahunga
Family photographs are one of our greatest personal treasures. The family photo album is the one item people consider they would ‘grab’ in a fire. We see them as a collection of life’s memories rather than an assemblage of images. The museum regularly receives donations of family photographic collections. Some are beautifully set out and... Read more »
Events
Winter concert series
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 12 May, 2pm Jazz duo – Oscar Laven & Adrian Jenson Sun 9 Jun, 2pm Classical guitar duo – Rameka Tamaki & Amber Madriaga Sun 8 Jul, 2pm Harry Griff (vocal)... Read more »
Winter concert series
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 12 May, 2pm Jazz duo – Oscar Laven & Adrian Jenson Sun 9 Jun, 2pm Classical guitar duo – Rameka Tamaki & Amber Madriaga Sun 8 Jul, 2pm Harry Griff (vocal)... Read more »
Winter concert series
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 12 May, 2pm Jazz duo – Oscar Laven & Adrian Jenson Sun 9 Jun, 2pm Classical guitar duo – Rameka Tamaki & Amber Madriaga Sun 8 Jul, 2pm Harry Griff (vocal)... Read more »
Winter concert series
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 12 May, 2pm Jazz duo – Oscar Laven & Adrian Jenson Sun 9 Jun, 2pm Classical guitar duo – Rameka Tamaki & Amber Madriaga Sun 8 Jul, 2pm Harry Griff (vocal)... Read more »
Winter concert series
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 12 May, 2pm Jazz duo – Oscar Laven & Adrian Jenson Sun 9 Jun, 2pm Classical guitar duo – Rameka Tamaki & Amber Madriaga Sun 8 Jul, 2pm Harry Griff (vocal)... Read more »
