Pacific Cultures
Situated in the heart of Victoria's bushranger country, the Benalla art Gallery occupies a striking modernist building by the lake. The gallery presents an exhibition program of Australian art in the Bennett Gallery, in addition to the permanent collection which includes elements of the region's history and recounting an Australian-European settlement story.
The collection continues to develop with recent acquisitions including outstanding Indigenous works and contemporary media postmodernist works. The Ledger Collection comprises Australian art from the 19th and early 20th centuries with an...
The collection continues to develop with recent acquisitions including outstanding Indigenous works and contemporary media postmodernist works. The Ledger Collection comprises Australian art from the 19th and early 20th centuries with an...
The museum holds an anthropology collection within the school of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University. Begun initially as a teaching collection, all of the artefacts have been donated to or sold to the museum by people with affiliations to the university in general or to the anthropology and sociology disciplines in particular. Since the museum is within a university, most of the audience are students, and the displays are all linked in some way to the subjects being taught in the school or to the lecturers fields of interest.The museum holds more than 1600 items (artefacts,...
Percy Aldridge Grainger was an internationally renowned Australian concert pianist and composer. The evidence of his creative life: his archive, personal library and many of his possessions, are preserved in this unique and autobiographical museum at the University of Melbourne.The Grainger Collection is an internationally significant Australian archive and object based collection. It includes: 50,000 items of correspondence, 15,000 photographs, published and original manuscripts, music and archives relating to other Australian composer, musical instrument collection, Fine art collection and...
The Gallery holds a collection of European and Australian paintings, prints and decorative arts from the 1700s, ethnographic material, antiquities and oriental decorative arts. It includes a large collection of works by the eighteenth-century English artist Paul Sandby.Approximately 7,000 items – Australian and English paintings and prints (1700s to contemporary), Greek and Roman Antiquities, Oriental Ceramics from the Han dynasty onwards, European glass, silver and ceramics (1700s to contemporary).
As a university-based art museum, The Potter offers distinctive experiences to visitors. Like the University itself, The Potter is committed to research, teaching and the enhancment of the cultural and intellectual life of the community. Selections from the University of Melbourne Art Collection are always on display, presenting art works and cultural artefacts collected over almost 150 years. Housing the second largest art collection in Victoria, the Potter's displays range from classical antiquity to contemporary art. Our changing exhibition program brings art from around Australia and the...
While Australia's oldest public art gallery The National Gallery of Victoria undergoes a program of redevelopment, a temporary gallery is located at 285-321 Russell Street. The magnificently restored 19th century galleries at Russell Street house over 700 key works from the NGV's permanent collection. The National Gallery of Victoria on Russell marks the Gallery's return to its original home, which it occupied from 1861 until the move to the Roy Ground's designed building in St Kilda Road in 1968.
The National Gallery of Victoria International Art will open in 2002 at the St Kilda Road site...
The National Gallery of Victoria International Art will open in 2002 at the St Kilda Road site...
Main collections include: Goldmining and life on the goldfields, R.E. Johns Aboriginal Collection, Beechworth Chinese Community Collection, Local Families, Identities Collection, Natural History and Development, Archives, Ned Kelly.In 1863 the Burke Museum was added to the Beechworth Public Library and Athenaeum (est 1856) in honour of Robert O'Hara Burke, the explorer of Burke and Wills fame. Today the Burke Museum presents cultural and natural heritage material, which contributes to the understanding and appreciation of the customs, activities, historic episodes, the natural environment and...
Historic Former Methodist buildings (CATD Memorial); with extensive archives (Methodist, Presbyterian, Congressional, Uniting Church); Small historical display and reference library. Archive financed by SYNOD of Victoria and staffed by volunteers. Part of national network of archives in Uniting Church. Undertakes research for a fee. Linked with UCA Historical Society (VIC) in Lectures and displays.A Fairly complete Methodist collection with significant holdings of Congregational and Presbyterian material and a collection of Uniting Church Archives at state and local level.
This eleven room wattle and daub cottage built circa 1832 consists of an entry, box room, parlour, nursery, bedroom, dining room, family room, sewing room, kitchen, laundry and side verandah. Appropriate artefacts covering several eras are in the various rooms, with display cases in every room. Set in a neat garden surroundsAccessioned photographs number 8,000. Accessioned artworks number 500. There are some 7,000 artifacts of all types.
Two storey building of stone, constructed in 1870 by the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Navigation Company as a Cooperative Society Store for their goods, employees and families. From circa 1885 the building had a variety of uses - as a printery, soft drink factory, lodging house, apartments, and railway employees barracks (1973-1991). Extra rooms and a verandah were added circa 1935. It is currently leased to Albany Historical Society and used as a storage museum for the artefacts, visual art and photography not on display. Accessioning, conservation of artefacts, administration and...
The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory collections' place the region's art, history and culture in an Australian and international context through research, interpretation and collection development. These collections encompass Aboriginal Art and material culture, visual arts, craft, Southeast Asian and Oceanic Art and material culture, maritime archaeology, Northern Territory history and natural sciences.160,000 artefacts and specimens