PAtaka Art + Museum
Art Gallery in Porirua
www.pataka.org.nz
Address
17 Parumoana Street. Porirua, Wellington.Are you the owner or manager of this company?
What you should know about PAtaka Art + Museum
In the 12 years since then the museum and gallery, which is about 15 minutes drive from central Wellington, has developed a reputation for showcasing the best in contemporary Maori and Pacific Arts, as well as contemporary New Zealand, Asian and international arts culture. By 1997 the museum was outgrowing its site at Takapuwahia, and a local community art gallery, Page 90, run by the Mana Community Arts Council since 1990, also needed more space and funding to expand. The new museum and gallery was set up temporarily in the old Porirua Museum building while the Page 90 site, on the corner of Parumoana and Norrie streets, was revamped and greatly expanded, including building a second floor, storerooms, education centre, museum courtyard, workshops, the Japanese Garden, Community Meeting Room and extensions to the library. The building had been named Te Marae O Te Umu Kai O Hau and the new museum and gallery was officially opened in September 1998.
Cnr Parumoana Norrie Streets, Porirua, Wellington PO Box 50218, Porirua City 5240, New Zealand Ph Fax . ACCESSIBILITY All Pataka’s gallery spaces are wheelchair accessible, as are the toilets by the cafe and the car parks outside both entrances. P taka exhibition proposals for Bottle Creek Gallery, Toi Gallery and main gallery spaces. Toi Object Space is P taka’s commercial gallery specifically designated to showcase exceptional small art objects made of glass, precious and semi precious metal and stones, ceramic, bone or wood
PATAKA Art Museum, which has become the cultural heart of Porirua City, opened in 1998. In the 12 years since then the museum and gallery, which is about 15 minutes drive from central Wellington, has developed a reputation for showcasing the best in contemporary Maori and Pacific Arts, as well as contemporary New Zealand, Asian and international arts culture.
By 1997 the museum was outgrowing its site at Takapuwahia, and a local community art gallery, Page 90, run by the Mana Community Arts Council since 1990, also needed more space and funding to expand. The new museum and gallery was set up temporarily in the old Porirua Museum building while the Page 90 site, on the corner of Parumoana and Norrie streets, was revamped and greatly expanded, including building a second floor, storerooms, education centre, museum courtyard, workshops, the Japanese Garden, Community Meeting Room and extensions to the library. The building had been named Te Marae O Te Umu Kai O Hau and the new museum and gallery was officially opened in September 1998
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