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The New Auckland Art Gallery
The Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki is New Zealand’s oldest art gallery that opened in 1888. It holds more than 14,000 works of national and international art dating from the 12th century up to the present. But the gallery can only show 3-4 percent of its collection at any one time due to space constraints.
Image source: nzcontemporary.com
It was decided that a new and bigger art gallery should be built to serve the public better. In July of 2004, Fjmt + Archimedia was appointed as architects to design the project. The design was done and accepted a year later and construction began in early 2008.
The plan includes earthquake proofing and heritage restoration of the 1887 and 1916 components of the main building with contemporary new additions that would increase exhibit space by at least fifty percent.
The new Auckland Art Gallery is set to open in mid 2011.
To see how it will look like, you can take a virtual tour of the new art gallery on their website.
