The $100 million it is proposed will be needed to build a new National Art Gallery to sit alongside Te Papa would:
• Fall $21 million short of building the new Auckland Art Gallery
• Pay for 133 harbour side homes for the National Portrait Galleries
• Secure the winning bid for 174.5 portraits by C F Goldie from Dame Kiri Te Kanawa’s collection at auction
• Be only around $9 million shy of matching all the funding Government has spent on museum and gallery building projects this century
(our independent OTN research team have conveniently posted a rough listing here on OTN Stuff)
• Help CNZ fund the NBR New Zealand Opera for 43.5 years
• Give you entry to Te Papa’s European Masters exhibition 4.5 million times
• Pay for all Creative NZ’s contestable funding for 6 years
• Allow you to commission three Damien Hirst diamond skulls and still have $300,000 change in your pocket
• Send artists to represent NZ at every Venice Biennale until the year 2200
