Pātaka Art + Museum

Pātaka Art + Museum is a municipal museum and art gallery of Porirua City, New Zealand.[1] Te Marae o Te Umu Kai o Hau is the name of the building where Pātaka Museum + Art is located and opened in 1998. It also houses the Porirua City Library, Cafe Kaizen and a Japanese Garden.[2][3]

Pātaka Art + Museum
Established1980
Coordinates41.13164°S 174.83961°E / -41.13164; 174.83961
TypeArt gallery
Websitepataka.org.nz

History

In 1980 the Porirua Museum opened and by 1997 had outgrown its Takapūwāhia site. At the same time, the Mana Community Arts Council wished to expand their community art gallery located on the corner of Parumoana and Norrie Streets. The two organisations amalgamated moving into the newly renovated and expanded site in 1998.[2][4]

Bob Cater co-founded Page 90 which became Pātaka and was awarded the Queen's Service Medal,[5][6] and Darcy Nicholas was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order,[7] in part for their roles in establishing the museum. The name Pātaka is a Māori language word meaning 'storehouse'. The purpose of Pātaka is to show contemporary Māori and Pacific arts. It also shows other New Zealand arts.[8]

Facilities
Foyer
Japanese Garden at Pātaka

Architecture + was the architectural firm that designed Pātaka. They transformed a 1970’s office building that already housed the Porirua City Library, Whitireia's performance space and Page 90 gallery.[9]

Pātaka has galleries with changing exhibitions. The Bottle Creek Gallery is for community and local artists.[10] Other galleries are the Front Gallery, West Gallery, the Maude & Miller Gallery and the Daylight Gallery. The Daylight Gallery has a semi-permanent exhibition about Ngāti Toa Rangatira, the local Māori iwi (nation or tribe) called Whiti Te Rā![8]

Pātaka Art + Museum has an atrium the full length of the building that also connects the Porirua Library, reception, shop, cafē, performing arts studio, and meeting and events rooms and an outside courtyard with a Japanese garden.[8]

Awards

Pātaka the building has won a number of awards:

References
  1. "Pataka Museum of Art and Cultures". NZ museums. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  2. "Pataka History". Pataka Art + Museum. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  3. "Pataka Museum of Art and Cultures". Porirua City Council. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  4. Dekker, Diana. "Pataka director chased non-western art". Faifax Media. The Dominion Post. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  5. "Robert (Bob) Cater, QSM, Porirua". Gg.govt.nz. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  6. Nicoll, Jared (6 October 2017). "A Life Story - Arts stalwart Bob Cater dies, age 80". Stuff. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  7. "Darcy Nicholas, of Lower Hutt". Gg.govt.nz. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  8. "Pātaka Art + Museum: Porirua's cultural heart - WellingtonNZ". Pātaka Art + Museum: Porirua’s cultural heart - WellingtonNZ. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  9. "Porirua Museum of Arts and Cultures | Architecture Plus Ltd". architectureplus.co.nz. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  10. "PATAKA Art + Museum". Stuff Events. Retrieved 21 September 2023.


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