Melbourne Art Attractions

With a visit to Melbourne, Victoria, you can indulge your appreciation of art by visiting the numerous art galleries and museums. Along with Melbourne's public art galleries and museums, there are over one hundred private galleries to explore. Most of these art galleries are found in Flinders Lane, which has Australia's largest population of studios.

You can join a walking tour of Melbourne's private galleries or explore for yourself. Get a Melbourne map and plot your itinerary. Take in South Bank where you will find the Austin Centre for Contemporary Art housing electronic imaging, photography, sculpture, painting and video.

At Federation Square, view the many galleries of the National Gallery of Victoria. Here, there are about 800 works on display from the 20,000 that are owned by the gallery. This is the international gallery, displaying works from Oceania, Europe, America and Asia.

The Ian Potter Centre, also a part of the National Gallery of Victoria, is the first major gallery to put aside a gallery for Australian Art and has showings by artists such as Howard Arkley, renowned for his paintings of Australian suburbia.

Another Melbourne art museum is the Heide Museum of Modern Art. Located in Templestowe Road, Bulleen, just fifteen minutes from Melbourne city, its architecture and gardens have also won awards.

Enjoy the Melbourne weather by walking around the streets, where you will find prolific street art and sculptures. Visit Docklands to see some of Australia's best outdoor sculpture. In the middle of Melbourne at the State Library there is the Cowen and Keith Murdoch Galleries which host touring exhibitions as well as housing a collection of Victorian art.