Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
Open every day 10am-6pm
(except Christmas Day)
Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
Watch as Group Architects build their Second House at Takapuna, and visitors look at the completed First House.
Excerpt from ‘Experiment in Housing’, Weekly Review 455 1950, National Film Unit (1941–89), New Zealand.
Digitised footage courtesy of Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
The 1952 Auckland exhibition Art and Design introduced New Zealanders to a vision for a more equal, happier way of life that grew from the devastation of World War II. Modern Living offers a lens into this ground-breaking exhibition, and an exciting era of new design in Aotearoa.
Closed
22 Aug 2020 – 26 Apr 2021
Exhibition Ngā whakaaturanga
Read the Group Architects published manifesto reproduced here.
