Wanganui - Queen's Park

The Serjeant Gallery (named after a well-to-do local family) occupies a large and imposing building. The collection consists mainly of works by British and New Zealand artists of the 19th and early 20th C, including CF Goldie and the local artist Frances Hodgkins.

The Wanganui Museum has an excellent collection of Maori arts and crafts, including greenstone jewelry and weapons, as well as a 23m long war canoe of 1810, once rowed by 70 men, and a series of portraits of Maori chiefs by the German painter Gottfried Lindauer. There are also mementos of the days of the first settlers and the conflicts with the Maoris.