Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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The Dunedin Public Art Gallery is the main public art collection of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand. Located in The Octagon in the heart of the city, it is close to the city's public library, municipal chambers, and other facilities such as the Regent Theatre.
The gallery has a storng collection of works by historical and contemporary new Zealand artists, and has one of the world's best collections of work by Frances Hodgkins, who was born in the city. It also has small but important collections of works by the old masters, notably works by British portraitists and landscape artists such as gainsborough, Constable, Reynolds, and Raeburn.
The gallery was started after the Dunedin Exhibition of 1889-1890, and was housed in the city's Otago Settlers Museum until the 1920s, at which time it was moved to a building constructed for the 1925 New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition in Logan Park, Dunedin North. It was relocated to its current purpose built structure in 1996.
The gallery has played host to several improant overseas shows, notably the Masterpieces of the Guggenheim exhibition of modern art, and the touring Tate Gallery exhibition The Pre-Raphaelite Dream.
The gallery is open daily (except public holidays) from 10 am - 5 pm.
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