Aratoi, Wairarapa Museum of Art and History

Current Exhibitions

Kete exhibition

KETE: From the Collection

detail from Summer Grass

Robin White and Taeko Ogawa: Futatsu no Sekai (Two Worlds)

Home chain

Sandra Schmid: Conversation

detail from Lost Savannah

Linda Kirkland: Tracks and Traces

A boro noragi, early 1900s, sashiko-stitched, indigo and katazome dyed cotton Collection of Pip Steel. Image courtesy of Te Manawa. Image: Sam Millen

Boro: Timeworn Textiles of Old Japan

All the Colours All the Light

Kaleidoscope

Future Exhibitions

Piwakawaka- Fantail by John Keating

Wairarapa Camera Club: A Million Pixels

calabash

Keteparaha - A toolkit

Plate taken from a miniature tea set celebrating Queen Elizabeth IIII

Let's have a Tea Party!

Jasmine Iona

Top Art Exhibition

Rosalie Jurczenko, Ukrainian Folk Costume

Rosalie Jurczenko: Shadowing Lands

Wairarapa School's Art 2025

Breadcraft Wairarapa School's Art Exhibition

News

detail from Robin White, War Rug, 2020, acrylic on canvas

Win a Robin White painting!

Aratoi Artist Auction

Going Going Gone!

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Annual Satisfaction Survey 2024

Winner Andrew Olsen

New Zealand Sotheby's International Realty Wairarapa Art Review 2023 Winners

Owen Prior with Lyn Patterson

You'll be greatly missed Owen Prior

Winner! The Wairarapa Awards 2022, celebrating business excellence