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Dunedin Public Art Gallery is one of New Zealand's finest art museums, showcasing the best of local, national and international art.

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.

The 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.

Collecting New Zealand art is an important priority for the Gallery. The earliest works in this area of the collection date from the 1860s when the colony was still in its infancy. Notable New Zealand artists represented in the collection include George O’Brien, Petrus van der Velden, C.F. Goldie, Rita Angus, Colin McCahon, Gordon Walters, Ralph Hotere as well as younger artists like Richard Killeen, Philip Trusttum, Jacqueline Fraser, Peter Robinson and Michael Parekowhai. Occupying a special place in the collection is the work of painter Frances Hodgkins, whose father founded the Gallery. Born and raised in Dunedin, she left early in her career to live and work in England where she gained a significant reputation in the context of Britain’s Neo-Romantic movement.

Open 10am to 5pm Daily, closed Christmas Day and Good Friday

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