A community street piano on George Street, outside the Library, October 2019

Creator:      Ben Foster
Place:          George Street
Date:          October 2019

Te Peeti Te Awe Awe (c1820-1884), a chief of the Rangitāne tribe, was involved with negotiations and the sale of Māori Land for the opening up of the Manawatu for pakeha settlement. A marble statue of Te Peeti was installed in The Square, Palmerst...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          The Square, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1907

A drawing by J T Stewart who was the District Engineer of the Public Works Department. Drawing shows two carved palisade posts in old pa, in bush at Wairarapa. Entitled "Figure in old Pa Wairarapa 1862". The drawing is in pencil and water colour. ...

Creator:      J T Stewart
Place:          Wairarapa
Date:          1862

This image was taken by Frank Goldingham for Photorama pictorial magazine, and was published in the August 1963 edition.

Caption: "An Interesting Art Exhibition was held in the Manawatu Art Gallery. The work was done by school children throughout...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 1963

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 2 April 1971. 'The former director of the Manawatu Art Gallery, Mr I. E. North, hangs one of the paintings in the Centenary exhibition, which will be on display for th...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard

Date:          April 3, 1971

These images were taken for a story that appeared in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 17 December 1992, but were not printed. Another image was published instead.

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard

Date:          December 1992

This image was published in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 17 December 1992.

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard

Date:          December 17, 1992

This image was taken for the story 'New Art Gallery Director' that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 2 April 1971. It shows Luit Bieringa, who had just been appointed the new director of the Manawatū Art Gallery.

Liut Bieringa (1942-2022...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard

Date:          April 3, 1971

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 12th January 2021. Part 2 of 4. Time in Tasmania as a vicar’s daughter. Setting up an art gallery in Launceston. Static and mobile collections, teaching handling of works of art. On to Ballarat. Description...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          January 12, 2021

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 5th January 2021.  Part 1 of 4. Working for Gough Whitlam in Canberra on National Gallery. Originally from Yorkshire, then to Somerset and Dorset, cultural differences. Wartime in England. Father a vica...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Ashhurst
Date:          January 5, 2021

Written by Peter Hawes to celebrate 40 years of Centrepoint Theatre, Palmerston North's professional Theatre.

It began in George Street in 1974 and moved to the corner of Pitt and Church Streets in 1978.

Creator:      Peter Hawes for Centrepoint Theatre
Place:          Corner of Pitt and Church Streets
Date:          circa 2014

The Whaiwhakaaroaro "Bronze Thinker" statue sits on the corner of The Square and Broadway. it was cast by Greg Kreger in 2019. It was commissioned by the Palmerston North Sculpture Trust with support by the Palmerston North City Council and indivi...

Creator:      Ian Matheson City Archives
Place:          Corner of Broadway and The Square
Date:          November 9, 2010

Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Warren and Virginia Warbrick share their love and understanding of Palmerston North, its present and its past with a wider audience. Their work includes city council cu...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          July 31, 2021

This image was taken for a story that appeared in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 21 December 1994, published with the caption: "A bronze tablet to commemorate the first 100 years of the Palmerston North Hospital was unveiled last night. Hospit...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard

Date:          December 21, 1994

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatū Evening Standard on 9 November 1981, titled 'Concrete in the Garden.' It describes the installation of the same name by the Palmerston North artist Paul Dibble (1943-2023) that was on vie...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard

Date:          November 9, 1981

This bronze sculpture, dating from 1996, is located outside the central branch of the Palmerston North City Library.

Creator:      Heather Glasgow

Date:          March 8, 2017

Drawing of a Māori meeting house, with man and dog, possibly at Puketotora or Raukawa Pā. It is not signed but handwriting on the back says, "Drawn by R Grindell Manawatu 1859". The drawing is in ink and watercolour. Drawn on card measuring 27 x 1...

Creator:      R Grindell
Place:          Unknown
Date:          1859

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 July 1961 "Pictured at the opening of the fifth annual art exhibition at the Art Gallery are (from the left): Mr. W.S. Wauchop (the president of the New Zealand Acade...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Corner of Grey and Carroll Street, Palmerston North
Date:          July 24, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 15 July, 1963. "Marine murals extending over 100ft were among the most effective decorations at the Freyberg High School Ball on Friday night. Above are (from left): Hea...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 15, 1963

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 14 January 1961: "Assistants were busy this morning at the Palmerston North art gallery preparing water-colour paintings by John Gully for exhibition. All painting deal ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Grey Street, Palmerston North
Date:          January 14, 1961

This photograph was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 October 1985 about an extended visit made by Highbury residents to the Kauwhata Marae (Feilding). The families spent the week at the marae for an educational pro...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Te Arakura Road, Feilding
Date:          October 1985

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 28 February 1961 "Mr. J.D. Laird, the senior tutor in art, demonstrated the great skill involved in throwing a pot on the wheel. Behind him stand some of the students in...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 28, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 30 May 1961 "This fine mahogany seat, designed by the noted Palmerston North sculptor, Mr. T.V. Johnston, and made by a city firm, has been presented to the Manawatu Soc...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Grey Street, Palmerston North
Date:          May 30, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 05 June 1958, page 8: "Casting an appreciative eye over the exhibition of work by three well-known New Zealand artists are the city librarian (Mr. D. Trudgeon) and Mrs. ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          June 5, 1958

This image was not published in the Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 16 May, 1963. [A woman poses for a portrait. The artist and woman both look at the photographer.]"

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard

Date:          May 16, 1963

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 July 1961 "Mr. F.G. Opie looks reflectively at the bronze bust of himself sculptured by Mr. T.V. Johnston which is on display at the fifth annual art exhibition in Pa...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 24, 1961

This photograph was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 October 1985 about an extended visit made by Highbury residents to the Kauwhata Marae (Feilding). The families spent the week at the marae for an educational pro...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Te Arakura Road, Feilding
Date:          October 1985

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 31 July 1961 "Mrs. P. Middlemiss, of City Kindergarten, and Miss Elaine Brian, of the Teachers' College, look with interest at the painting efforts of little Doreen Coen...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 31, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 13 August, 1959. "They may not be Van Goghs, but they stem from a pure if unformed vision into the essence of things. They were painted by some pupils of the Palmerston...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 13, 1959

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 19 February 1958, page 7: "Two popular figures are portrayed here in the cave at Collinson and Cunninghame's. They are Sir Edmund Hillary and his companion in the advent...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North
Date:          February 19, 1958