List of Art museums and galleries in Australia
This list of art museums in Australia to facilitate tracking of the articles on individual museums.
The oldest museum in Australia is the 1827 built in Sydney at Hyde Park Australian Museum. It contains extensive natural history collections but also collections on the history and culture of the indigenous population. Another most important natural history museum is the Museum of Victoria, founded in 1854 in Melbourne, with a comprehensive collection of 12 million copies.
Australian art from the colonial beginnings to contemporary artists houses the Art Gallery of New South Wales, built in 1880 in Sydney. Also, European and Asian works are among the objects of this museum. The connected here Yiribana Gallery is the world's largest collection of indigenous Australian art.
This list of art museums in Australia is derived from the corresponding engl.sprachigen WP category. Double entries after collection area, proper name and by location are possible.
A
- Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
- Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
- Artbank, Sydney Australia wide, active
- Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
B
- Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Victoria
I
- Ian Potter Centre, Melbourne
N
- 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
P
Q
- Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
- Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
S
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- Art museum in Australia
- List (museums by state )
- List ( art exhibitions)