Heide Museum of Modern Art

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Heidemuseum with sculpture park
Rings of Saturn (2005/2006) by Inge King
Theoretical Matter by Neil Taylor

The Heide Museum of Modern Art or Heide Moma is a museum of modern art in Australia in the village of Bulleen in Victoria near Melbourne .

The museum complex

The museum complex consists of three buildings. The name Heide for the complex comes from the nearby town of Heidelberg .

  • Heide I from the 1880s was an original dairy building built in 1934 by a group of sculptors who later became known as Heide Circle , including artists Albert Tucker , Sidney Nolan, and Joy Hester .
  • Heide II was built in 1963 as an exhibition building and as a residential and workshop building for artists.
  • Heide III was built in 1993 and is the largest exhibition building. It includes the Central Galleries , Albert & Barbara Tucker Gallery , Tucker Study Center, and the Kerry Gardner & Andrew Myer Project Gallery
  • Sidney Myer Education Center was designed and built as a study center.

collection

The collection includes works of modern sculpture from the 1930s, such as Moya Dyring , Sidney Nolan , Albert Tucker, Joy Hester , John Perceval , Arthur Boyd , Howard Arkley , Charles Blackman , Peter Booth , Mike Brown , Richard Larter , Wolfgang Sievers , Sweeney Reed , Sam Atyeo and Jenny Watson .

Sculpture park

The museum complex is divided into different areas: Museum complex, Kitchen Garden , Karakarook's Garden Sir Rupert Hamer Garden and the sculpture park with the works of Australian sculptors.

Sculptures

Photo gallery

  • Building Heide I

  • Building Heide II

  • Sculpture park

Web links

Commons : Heide Museum of Modern Art  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 37 ° 45 '32.2 "  S , 145 ° 5' 3.1"  O