A good crowd of music fans braved the winter weather for a glance at an exhibition celebrating Dunedin band The Chills. Photos: Gerard O'Brien

Chills frontman Martin Phillipps performed a very different type of gig yesterday, taking part in a gallery talk for a new Otago Museum exhibition on the band’s history.

Phillipps — who formed The Chills in Dunedin in 1980 and took the band to international success — fielded questions about his music, alongside exhibition curator Michael Findlay.

The exhibition, at the museum’s H. D. Skinner Annexe, opened on Saturday.

Featuring memorabilia from Phillipps’ own archive, it also has sections dedicated to his songwriting, and other treasures which visitors are encouraged to seek out, sourced from his large hoard of pop culture collectables.

Chills exhibition curator Michael Findlay (left) listens as the band’s leader, Martin Phillipps, shares war stories at a gallery talk at Otago Museum yesterday.

"It’s an exhibition you could spend half a day at. There are over 400 objects," Mr Findlay said.

"It’s great the museum takes a subject like this seriously and is prepared to put this much effort into it."

"Things Change: Martin Phillipps and The Chills" runs until July 15.