Dowse Art Museum
The Dowse Art Museum is a municipal art gallery in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. Opened in 1971 in the Lower Hutt CBD, the Dowse occupies a stand-alone building adjacent to other municipal facilities.Photo: Stuartyeates, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: Lower Hutt art museum
- Also known as: “Dowse Art Gallery”, “Dowse Gallery”, “The Dowse”, and “The Dowse Art Museum”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Queensgate Shopping Centre and Vogel House.
Queensgate Shopping Centre
Shopping center
Photo: Lcmortensen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Queensgate Shopping Centre is a medium sized shopping centre in central Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. The centre first opened in October 1986, and underwent a large scale redevelopment that was completed in August 2006. Queensgate Shopping Centre is situated 270 metres northeast of Dowse Art Museum.
Vogel House
Manor estate
Photo: HenryCrun15, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vogel House at 75 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, is a neo-Georgian-style home built in 1933. For 13 years, it was the official residence of the Prime Minister of New Zealand, and it housed multiple other ministers and dignitaries. Vogel House is situated 290 metres southwest of Dowse Art Museum.
Lower Hutt War Memorial Library
Library
Photo: Rudolph89, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lower Hutt War Memorial Library is a building in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, that houses that city's central library. The public library system of the city of Lower Hutt identifies the library collection within the building as the "War Memorial Library". Lower Hutt War Memorial Library is situated 310 metres west of Dowse Art Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lower Hutt and Woburn.
Lower Hutt
Photo: Deanpemberton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lower Hutt is a city of 112,000 people in the lower Hutt Valley, near Wellington, in the Greater Wellington region of the North Island of New Zealand. The city includes Lower Hutt and the separate communities of Petone, Eastbourne and Wainuiomata.
Woburn
Suburb
Woburn is a suburb of Lower Hutt, Wellington situated at the bottom of the North Island of New Zealand. Henry Petre farmed the area in the 1840s and named the area after the Duke of Bedford's estate, Woburn Abbey.
Alicetown
Suburb
Photo: HenryCrun15, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alicetown is a central suburb of Lower Hutt located at the bottom of the North Island of New Zealand. The suburb is situated north of the major suburb of Petone and west of Hutt Central.
Dowse Art Museum
- Categories: art museum, building, tourism, arts center, and tourist attraction
- Location: Lower Hutt City, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-41.21181° or 41° 12′ 43″ southLongitude
174.90438° or 174° 54′ 16″ eastOpen location code
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way 167957697OpenStreetMap feature
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tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q17049879
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Dowse Art Museum” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “متحف دوز للفنون”
- Dutch: “Dowse Art Museum”
- Dutch: “The Dowse Art Museum”
- French: “Dowse Art Museum”
- French: “The Dowse Art Museum”
- German: “Dowse Art Museum”
- German: “The Dowse Art Museum”
- Italian: “Dowse Art Museum”
- Italian: “The Dowse Art Museum”
- Japanese: “ダウズ美術館”
- Portuguese: “Dowse Art Museum”
- Portuguese: “The Dowse Art Museum”
- Spanish: “Dowse Art Museum”
- Spanish: “The Dowse Art Museum”
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