Sarjeant Gallery

The Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui is a local artwork museum with a collection of international and New Zealand artwork, placed in Pukenamu Queen's Park, Whanganui. The Sarjeant changed into constructed as the result of a bequest to the metropolis by Henry Sarjeant in 1912. Sarjeant bequeathed the cash "for the foundation of ourselves and people who come after us". A competition changed into held to choose an architect for the mission; the winner became Dunedin architect Edmund Anscombe, but it is in all likelihood the actual design changed into completed by a young student in his offices names Donald Hosie.

The cruciform, neo-classical style gallery changed into opened in 1919. Four galleries branch off a valuable space capped with an oculus in a hemispherical dome. The building is registered with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust as a Category I Historic Place with registration quantity 167, and has the best possible listing under the New Zealand Historic Places Trust Act.