Rotorua Art Gallery

Housed in a mock-Tudor building which, seventy years ago, was the site of the Rotorua Bathhouse, The Rotorua Art Gallery was built at a time when the leisured set came to the city to take the healing waters, this erstwhile Spa now houses the Museum, the Art Gallery and a night-club.

The Gallery's Director, John Perry, took over his post in 1978 and immediately decided to mount exhibitions and buy works which related to the thematic areas associated with the city - that is, art concerned with Maori and Polynesian culture, geothermal activity and the Maori image in a historical context.