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City Centre
Auckland Art Gallery
GALLERY
(
www.aucklandartgallery.com
;
cnr Kitchener & Wellesley Sts; admission varies for special exhibitions;
10am-5pm)
Following a significant 2011 refurbishment, Auckland's premier art
repository now has a stunning glass-and-wood atrium grafted onto its 1887 French-chat-
eau frame. Along with important works by Pieter Bruegel the Younger, Guido Reni, Pi-
casso, Cézanne, Gauguin and Matisse, it also showcases the best of NZ art. Highlights
include the intimate 19th-century portraits of tattooed Maori subjects by Charles Goldie,
and the starkly dramatic text-scrawled canvasses of Colin McCahon. Free tours depart
from the main entrance daily at 11.30am and 1.30pm.
Albert Park
PARK
On the city's eastern flank, Albert Park is a Victorian formal garden bordering
Auckland
University
's campus, and incorporates a row of stately Victorian merchant houses
rant)
. The latter was the colony's seat of power from 1856 until 1865, when Wellington
became the capital. The stately
University Clock Tower
(1926) has influences from art
nouveau (the incorporation of NZ flora and fauna into the decoration), and the Chicago
School.
At the centre of the campus is a wall of the Albert Barracks (1847), a fortification that
enclosed 9 hectares, including Albert Park, during the New Zealand Wars.
Sky Tower
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