page_title: New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition
section_title: Former art gallery
hierarchical_section_title: New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition / Former art gallery
caption_attribution_description: English: Otago play Northern Districts at the University Oval, Dunedin, New Zealand, in February 2007. Edmund Anscombe's former Exhibition Art Gallery is centre left, New Zealand Historic Places Trust Register number 2149. Photograph by James Dignan (User:Grutness).
context_page_description: The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition was a world's fair held in Dunedin, New Zealand from 17 November 1925 until 1 May 1926, which celebrated that country and the South Seas. It was the third such exhibition held in Dunedin, with earlier exhibitions in 1865 and 1889. The exhibition had over 3 million visitors.
context_section_description: Little now remains of the exhibition venue and structure other than Logan Park and Anzac Avenue themselves. The only remaining structure on the original site, the exhibition's art gallery, was bought at the conclusion of the exhibition by Sir Percy Sargood and his family, and donated to the city as an art gallery. The building remained the site of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery until a new site was completed for the gallery in the central city in 1996. 
  Some sections of some of the exhibitions buildings were sold to members of the public and moved to other sites, most notably a small domed structure now part of an art gallery at Brighton, to the south of Dunedin. After the Dunedin Public Art Gallery moved to its new site in the city centre in 1996, the building was shortened to allow for expansion to the neighbouring University Oval cricket ground. The remaining portions of the gallery are used by the New Zealand Academy of Sport and Sports Medicine New Zealand as a gym, training venue, and offices.
  The former gallery building is the only remaining structure from any of the International Fairs held in New Zealand in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and one of only some eight left from this era of world fairs worldwide. The building was designed by Edmund Anscombe, a driving force behind the staging of an exhibition in Dunedin, who was appointed official architect to the exhibition in 1924. The building has a Heritage New Zealand Category I classification.
caption: University Oval, with the former art gallery on the left
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