List of art museums in Australia
This list of art museums in Australia is designed to help you locate the articles on individual museums.
The oldest museum in Australia is the Australian Museum, built in Hyde Park in Sydney in 1827 . It contains extensive natural history collections, but also collections on the history and culture of the indigenous population. Another predominantly natural history museum of importance is the Victoria Museum, founded in Melbourne in 1854, with a collection of 12 million specimens.
Australian art from colonial beginnings to contemporary artists is the home of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, built around 1880 in Sydney. European and Asian works are also among the objects in this museum. The attached Yiribana Gallery is the world's largest collection of indigenous Australian art.
This list of art museums in Australia comes from the corresponding English language WP category. Duplicate entries according to collection area, proper name and location are possible.
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- Art Gallery of South Australia , Adelaide
- Art Gallery of Western Australia , Perth
- Artbank, Sydney , operates throughout Australia
- Australian Center for Contemporary Art , Melbourne
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- Heath Museum of Modern Art , Bulleen , Victoria
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- National Art Glass Gallery , Wagga Wagga , New South Wales
- National Gallery of Australia , Canberra
- National Museum of Australia (bark paintings), Canberra
- National Portrait Gallery , Canberra
- National Gallery of Victoria , Melbourne
- Art Gallery of New South Wales , Sydney
- Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum, Faulconbridge , New South Wales
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- Queensland Art Gallery , Brisbane
- Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane