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Rā Maumahara | New Zealand Wars

Join curators Matiu Baker and Rebecca Rice for a tour of the exhibition, as well as a visit back of house to look more closely at some of the pictures and stories associated with the New Zealand Wars.

$25.00

Rā Maumahara | New Zealand Wars

Join curators Matiu Baker and Rebecca Rice for a tour of the exhibition, as well as a visit back of house to look more closely at some of the pictures and stories associated with the New Zealand Wars.

$25.00

Rodin – France’s Greatest Sculptor

What made Rodin so radical and modern? Why did his sculpture of Balzac divide the art world? And are some of his works overrated? Dr Mark Stocker explores his rise to fame, the controversies he sparked, and some of his most renowned works, including 'The Thinker' and 'The Kiss'.

Glorious Things

Dr Helen Rufus-Ward will trace the fascinating story of the Byzantine Empire, which flourished for over a thousand years, through the art of the period. Mosaics, ivory carvings, enamels, holy relics, silverware and icons are just some of the ‘glorious things' to be examined and discussed.

$10.00 – $20.00

Bolton Street Cemetery

Commemorative art is the focus of our tour through the Bolton Street Cemetery. This is Wellington’s oldest cemetery dating from 1840. To the Victorians, memorial symbolism was important and you will see interesting examples of this form of art.

$15.00

A special insight into the exhibition

We will begin our tour at the heart of the exhibition, in the oldest surviving carved meeting house in the world, Te Hau ki Tūranga, a high point of Rongowhakaata creative expression.

$18.00 – $25.00

Friends’ Preview of Toi Art

Toi Art is the new home of New Zealand’s national art collection. Spanning two floors, the newly built gallery offers an additional 35% more floor space and will feature four major exhibitions as well as commissions from leading New Zealand artists.

NZ Impressionists and an Italian masterpiece

Join us on the bus to Expressions for tours of a 'salon' hang of the entire Pumpkin Cottage collection, and "The Secrets of Mona Lisa", an exhibition that combines art, history and science to shed light on a very old painting.

$35.00 – $45.00

Tudor and Jacobean portraits

This lecture is a feast for the eyes! It describes the oil painting materials and techniques of the portrait painters of the Tudor and Jacobean courts in 16th and early 17th century England. Presented by Sarah Cove, one of Britain’s foremost Technical Art Historians and consultant to international museums, salerooms and collectors.

Free – $20.00

Modernist murals of E Mervyn Taylor

Author Bronwyn Holloway-Smith will take us on a detective hunt to find some of this country's most important and beautiful murals.

$15.00 – $25.00