The Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
The Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki is a public gallery which is situated in Auckland, New Zeeland. It is a very impressive art gallery collection for keeping monuments for national and international art as well as artistic concepts. Further, hosting of international exhibitions occurs in the art gallery understand government sanctioned programs. It is located on hilltop inside central city area of Auckland, New Zeeland under category A heritage building type.
Furthermore, before being an art gallery it was a public library and council office of Auckland. Two important benefactors supported the establishment of Auckland public library in early 1872 including Governor Sir George Grey and James Tannock Mackelvie whereas considered second public library after year 1884 (“History and collection”, n.d.). According to the report, an American businessman offered $115 million in the year 2009 as a donation for making changes in the current art gallery feature (Herrick, 2009). The construction was performed in the year 2011 for refurbishment of certain building areas. In the year 2019 Kirsten Paisley was appointed director who currently operating as the chief authority of the art gallery (“Directors”, n.d.). The following image depicts the current building and modern architecture of Auckland Art Gallery.