Art Museum

Ashburton Art Gallery and Heritage Centre

Ashburton Art Gallery and Heritage Centre
Ashburton Art Gallery and Heritage Centre

Ashburton Art Gallery and Heritage Centre is an art museum in Ashburton District, New Zealand.

About Ashburton Art Gallery and Heritage Centre

Ashburton Art Gallery and Heritage Centre is an art gallery and museum complex located in the town of Ashburton, New Zealand, owned and operated by the Ashburton District Council. The Ashburton Museum opened in 1972 and moved along with the Ashburton Art Gallery into former County Council buildings in 1995. The museum moved into a new purpose-built facility in 2014, the art gallery following it in 2015. Both institutions merged into a single organisation under the Ashburton District Council in 2021.

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Founded
2015

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Artworks shown from Ashburton Art Gallery and Heritage Centre are in the public domain; images via the open-access programs of their source collections. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.