Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki Review

Always a great place to hang - especially with kids!

Beautiful artwork. Lovely building. Had fun in the sticker room

Cool place to check out, always great to find free things to spend time doing in the city. Good for a casual first date, you can have fun with wacky art interpretation

Great atmosphere plus friendly and informative staff

Amazing place to know a little more about Maori culture

Interesting and sometimes strange. Free. You must leave your bag at the reception.

Fabulous art gallery. Great overview of NZ art work easy to digest. Great architecture and child care section/station. Super friendly staff. Always worth a visit.

Quite an interesting gallery with an obliteration room (where you stick colourful dots on everything). Mostly modern art. Which some of them are amazing but some are nothing special. It's ok to visit but i wouldn't go there again.

You would find many kind of arts that comes from new zealand and foreign.

Nice place but a little too modern for my taste. Beautiful building and worth a quick visit

Great exhibits. Helpful staff. Nice place to be on a Sunday afternoon

Fabulous quality of exhibitions lovely staff, great space and a delicious cafe.

Great history and a fantastic building, amazing to walk through and see the architectural design.
Historical Maori painting and a lot to learn.

Accessibility. Variety of products. Excellent attention.

The Auckland Art Gallery Christmas Party was a failure . It attracted about 30 people at $40.00 odd dollars ahead . Oh but almost half were staff or security staff etc . Nothing really to write home about .Corporatized food service no home baked cakes as was usual . Many members stayed away because Kinder the featured artist is of no significance to the members because they have lived with that art for years . Style gone , cost up ,corporatized sterilized ,sanitized . Should have been a time for friendship not fund raising .

Disappointing. Too much abstract. What about contempory watercolour, acrylic and oil etc.?

Took a lot of photos ,I would love to come again and have a look at the art gallery a bit more.

New Zealand's view from New Zealand writers was quite different from the tourist's perspective. Even if you don't have much interest in art, the building itself is modern and relaxing.

You have to love the gallery of portraits by Goldie! Photographers don't get the accuracy he does with his Maori faces. Worth it for that alone but the contemporary art is also interesting. We also enjoyed sticking dots in the Obliteration exhibit.

The Auckland Art Gallery is genuinely world class. Such a special environment nestled but not impinging in the local landscape. Always amazingly curated exhibits too

hope i can come again , i love this place so much!!!!!!!!

I loved the gallery. There were many miraculous possessions 4 bearing in mind.

Up there with the world's best (and I've seen them).

Art lovers heaven. Has the most beautiful and wierd art (sorry) spread across a huge area. Everything about this place is captivating and is a must see if you are short on time in auckland. A great perspective sinks into you when you capture the beauty of the art in this place.

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o T maki is the principal public gallery in Auckland, New Zealand, and has the most extensive collection of national and international art in New Zealand. It frequently hosts travelling international exhibitions.
the gallery was established in 1888 as the first permanent art gallery in New Zealand.
The building originally housed the Auckland Art Gallery as well as the Auckland public library opening with collections donated by benefactors Governor Sir George Grey and James Tannock Mackelvie.

The Auckland Gallery collection was initially dominated by European old master paintings following the standard taste of the 19th century. Today the collection has expanded to include a wider variety of periods, styles and media, and numbers over 15,000 artworks.[2] Many New Zealand and Pacific artists are represented, as well as Europe and material from the Middle Ages to the present day.
The main gallery building was originally designed by Melbourne architects Grainger & D'Ebro to house not only the art gallery but also the City Council offices, lecture theatre and public library. It is constructed of brick and plaster in an early French Renaissance style and was completed in 1887, with an extension built in 1916. It is three storeys high, with an attic in the steep pitched roofs, and a six-storey clock tower.

Good way to spend an afternoon, takes about 2.5 hours to go through.

Focus on New Zealand artists, which as a international tourist is very interesting since it's not something one knows a lot about.

It's 20nzd to enter without a NZ residence card, which might be slightly steep given its not the biggest collection

Delightful gallery. A building that's always a pleasure to go around

Interesting place to visit for some culture, free thinking exhibits, and thought provoking art. Excellent place to enjoy this in Auckland city.

Always worth a visit when in Auckland. Conveniently situated in the cbd beside Albert Park. The gallery has a popular cafe/restaurant

free for nz residents and charging 20 dollars for foreigners

friendly staff, very clean facilities, great exhibitions

Wonderful ambiance. Just a marvelous place to visit as well as the exhibitions.

Clean and we'll presented with a spacious gallery feel and adjacent a park. Definitely feels NZ centric in its content and limited by its footprint as to what there is to see. Probably worth 4 or 5 stars if you haven't been spoilt like I was by living near the Tate in London.

Amazing thought provoking gallery... 5star visitor experience

A charming blend of classic and avant-garde. The variety means even a traditional conservative can feel in vogue by appearing gauche without too much guilt.

An amazing place to visit if your ever in Auckland. I recommend this attraction.

If you like art then this will be the place for you you can spend time chilling out looking at all the art on the wall or have a nice coffee in the restaurant

Toi T Toi Ora: contemporary M ori art
Absolutely breathtaking beautiful

NZ government maintained a good quality of museums and galleries in Auckland. Well Done!
Resident Entry Fee: Free
Visitor from overseas: NZ$20 (Working Holiday VISA holder FREE entry)

Must do visit. Views from the museum to the park worth taking note of.

Good place to visit not sure why do you have to pay so much money for ticket!

Many different categories of art are featured. Not crowded and free entrance.

THE ART in capitals.

So good to see the new and the old art.Lots to look at and enjoy from people's ides of ideal houses to Womens suffrage. Gordon Walters New Vision worth seeing and extra good if it is raining outside which it is.

By far, the most outstanding room is the one with the Maori portraits

Enjoyed my visit here today. The Goldie is a highlight, and the current Frances Hodgkins exhibition was very interesting too. The cafe here had a great range of food.

Staff always so lovely and the gallery is awesome. My partner an I go here often, regular date spot

Great place to visit with children especially when there are interactive displays. Not easy to get there however and parking can be pricey.

Wonderful building. Splendid exhibition on Danish furniture. Other exhibits somewhat mundane.

Nice atmosphere and stunning artworks. Great destination, especially for a nice Sunday afternoon with moody weather.

Great place to spend a few hours in beautiful surroundings & the cafe is pretty good too :)

Should not take your kids with. Under 10 my opinion.

I loved it. The place was just so inspiring. It's a nice place to unwind and relax. The area is well kept. There were no bits of trash anywhere. Even the toilets were super clean. Also, the staff are really nice and helpful. I really enjoyed their obliteration room as well! It was so full of colour and life! It was very interactive (Also, really nice to have the kids with you. It gives them something to do).

Its free to a lot of exhibits. goid place to fill out when there are no school kids on a lunch time.

Expensive if non resident ($20 per adult). Lots of overly conceptual modern art which lacks real artistic merit

love the variation of exhibitions. Even the kids love coming back

Put off by the fact they charge $20 admission for international visitors. (NZ nationals are free) . Rather unfair for a museum, and somewhat discouraging.

Argentinian Tango is on some Saturdays around the back

Many exhibitions are often updated, there is also a small cafe, and the artistic atmosphere is very good.