Auckland Art Gallery

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
The gallery building, showing the clock tower
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Former names	Auckland City Art Gallery
General information
Type	Art gallery, formerly public library and council offices
Architectural style	French Renaissance
Location	Corner Wellesley and Kitchener Streets, Auckland CBD
Coordinates	36°51′05″S 174°45′59″E / 36.8514°S 174.7663°E / -36.8514; 174.7663
Completed	1887
Owner	Auckland Unlimited, Auckland Council (indirectly through Auckland Unlimited)
Design and construction
Architect(s)	John Harry Grainger & Charles D'Ebro; refurbished by FJMT + Archimedia (2011)
Awards and prizes	2013 World Building of the Year, World Architecture Festival
Website
http://www.aucklandartgallery.com/
Heritage New Zealand – Category 1
Designated	11-Nov-1983
Reference no.	92

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is the principal public gallery in Auckland, New Zealand. It has the most extensive collection of national and international art in New Zealand and frequently hosts travelling international exhibitions.

Set below the hilltop Albert Park in the central-city area of Auckland, the gallery was established in 1888 as the first permanent art gallery in New Zealand.

The building originally housed both the Auckland Art Gallery and the Auckland public library, and opened with collections donated by benefactors Governor Sir George Grey and James Tannock Mackelvie. This was the second public art gallery in New Zealand, after the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, which opened three years earlier in 1884. Wellington's New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts opened in 1892 and a Wellington Public Library in 1893.

In 2009, it was announced that the museum received a donation from American businessman Julian Robertson, valued at over $100 million, the largest ever of its kind in the region. The works will be received from the owner's estate.^[1]