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Art Gallery of Ballarat

The Art Gallery of Ballarat is Australia's oldest and largest regional art gallery, located at 40 Lydiard Street North in central Ballarat, Victoria. Founded in 1884, it houses a nationally significant collection of Australian art spanning colonial, Heidelberg School, and contemporary works, including paintings, sculpture and works on paper. Housed in a heritage-listed building, the gallery offers free general admission and hosts rotating temporary exhibitions, making it a key cultural institution in regional Victoria.

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Art Gallery of NSW

The Art Gallery of New South Wales is a major public art museum located in The Domain, central Sydney, adjacent to the Royal Botanic Garden. Established in 1871, it is one of Australia's leading art institutions. The gallery comprises a historic 19th-century building and the contemporary Sydney Modern expansion (Naala Badu). It holds extensive collections of Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, European, Asian and contemporary art, and hosts the annual Archibald Prize.

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Art Gallery of South Australia

The Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) is the state art museum located on North Terrace in central Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1881, it houses one of Australia's most significant art collections of approximately 45,000 works. Notable for its extensive Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, European, Asian and contemporary holdings, it is housed in a historic neoclassical building within the Adelaide cultural precinct.

Adelaide, South AustraliaArt Gallery

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Art Gallery of Western Australia

The Art Gallery of Western Australia is the state's premier public art gallery located in the Perth Cultural Centre in Northbridge, central Perth. Established in 1895 and housed in three heritage and contemporary buildings, it holds the State Art Collection with works from Western Australian, Australian and international artists, including extensive Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. It is notable for its free general admission, rotating exhibitions, and role as a key cultural institution in Western Australia.

Perth, Western AustraliaArt Gallery

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Australian Museum

The Australian Museum is Australia's oldest museum, located at 1 William Street in central Sydney, New South Wales. Established in 1827, it is renowned for its extensive natural history and cultural collections, including First Nations and Pacific cultural artefacts, palaeontology, mineralogy, zoology and anthropology. Its heritage-listed buildings house permanent and temporary exhibitions opposite Hyde Park.

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Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia is the Australian art wing of the National Gallery of Victoria, located at Federation Square in central Melbourne, Victoria. Opened in 2002, it houses the NGV's extensive collection of Australian art, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, colonial, modern and contemporary works. Notable for its distinctive contemporary architecture and free general admission, it presents paintings, sculpture, photography, fashion and decorative arts spanning centuries of Australian creativity.

Melbourne, VictoriaArt Gallery

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Jewish Museum of Australia

The Jewish Museum of Australia is a cultural museum located at 26 Alma Road in St Kilda, within the City of Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria. Housed in a former synagogue building, it is dedicated to preserving and interpreting Jewish life, history and culture in Australia. The museum holds a collection of over 20,000 objects, photographs and documents and presents permanent and temporary exhibitions on Jewish traditions, migration and community life.

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MOCA Bangkok

MOCA Bangkok is a private contemporary art museum in Chatuchak District, Bangkok, located on Kamphaeng Phet 6 Road. Opened in 2012 by businessman and collector Boonchai Bencharongkul, it houses one of Thailand's most extensive collections of modern Thai art across five floors. The museum is notable for its large white building, extensive paintings and sculptures by Thai artists, and its focus on preserving and promoting Thai contemporary art and culture.

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National Gallery of Victoria

The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is Australia's oldest and most visited public art museum, located at 180 St Kilda Road in Southbank, Melbourne. Founded in 1861, it operates across two sites: NGV International on St Kilda Road and The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square. It is notable for its extensive collections of Australian, Indigenous, Asian, European and contemporary art, its modernist architecture, and its free general admission.

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Newcastle Art Gallery

Newcastle Art Gallery is a major public art gallery located at 1 Laman Street in Cooks Hill, Newcastle, New South Wales. Established in 1945 and opened in its purpose-built building in 1957, it was the first regional gallery built in New South Wales. It holds a nationally significant collection of over 7,000 works, including Australian painting, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, Japanese ceramics and modern works, and presents changing exhibitions and public programs.

Newcastle, New South WalesArt Gallery

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Powerhouse Museum

The Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo, Sydney, is the flagship site of the Powerhouse (Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences) housed in the former Ultimo Power Station on Harris Street. Notable for extensive collections spanning science, technology, industry, transport, design and decorative arts, it occupies a heritage-listed industrial building. Established from the 1879 Sydney International Exhibition and opened at Ultimo in 1988, it is currently closed for a major revitalisation.

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Queensland Art Gallery

The Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) is Queensland's state art gallery located in the Queensland Cultural Centre at Stanley Place, South Brisbane, Brisbane. Established in 1895 and relocated to its current purpose-built building in 1982, it forms part of Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). It is notable for its extensive collection of Australian art, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander works, Asian and Pacific art, and international holdings displayed in permanent and temporary exhibitions.

Brisbane, QueenslandArt Gallery

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South Australian Museum

The South Australian Museum on North Terrace in Adelaide is South Australia's premier natural and cultural history museum. Established in 1856, it houses extensive collections spanning natural history, geology, palaeontology and Aboriginal cultures. It is renowned for holding the world's largest collection of Australian Aboriginal cultural material, alongside significant fossil, mineral and Pacific collections, and forms a key part of Adelaide's North Terrace cultural precinct.

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Venkatappa Art Gallery

Venkatappa Art Gallery is a government-run art gallery on Kasturba Road in central Bengaluru, Karnataka, adjacent to the Government Museum within the Cubbon Park precinct. Established in 1975 and named after renowned Mysore court painter K. Venkatappa (1886–1965), it houses a permanent collection of his watercolours, plaster-of-Paris works and personal artefacts, along with temporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. The gallery is noted for its central location and role in promoting Karnataka's artistic heritage.

Bengaluru, KarnatakaArt Gallery

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WA Museum Boola Bardip

WA Museum Boola Bardip is Western Australia's flagship state museum located in the Perth Cultural Centre in central Perth. Reopened in November 2020 after a major redevelopment, it integrates heritage buildings with contemporary architecture by Hassell + OMA. The museum houses extensive collections spanning Aboriginal cultural heritage, natural history and Western Australian social history, and is notable for its eight permanent galleries, immersive displays and Noongar name meaning 'many stories'.

Perth, Western AustraliaMuseum

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