Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History

The story behind ‘Galliard – Forms in Movement’ by Barbara Hepworth, the first item in the museum collection, is the story behind the founding of the arts institution. Residents of the Wairarapa purchased the sculpture by the English modernist artist in 1963 to advocate for the establishment of an arts centre in the region. Our doors would open six years later, in 1969. ...