Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Art Gallery

Free entry, timber canopies and Māori portraits

Hours

Daily 10am–5pm, closed Christmas Day

Tickets

Collection galleries free for all; some exhibitions and events charge

Address

Corner of Wellesley Street East and Kitchener Street; main doors at 1 Kitchener Street

An old French-château-style stone building with a glass roof held up by kauri-timber columns that branch like trees. The collection galleries are free for everyone, which makes it the best rainy-hour escape in the CBD. Stand in front of the Goldie and Lindauer portraits of Māori elders from around 1900 and you can follow every line of the moko. Out the back door is Albert Park, good for a sit on the grass afterwards.