Museums

We need to talk about colonialism and our museums
Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Must Rhodes fall? In her book The Whole Picture, Alice Proctor…

Ten Australian niche museums
Have you ever viewed a sculpture 40 feet underwater? Or taken a peek into the bedrooms of Russia's aristocracy? Australia’s…

New Greek museum in Melbourne aspires to being a world class destination
A collaboration between the Benaki Museum in Athens, property developer ISPT and the Hellenic Museum aims to open a local…

ACMI renews digital promise in virtual launch
Is the Australian Centre of the Moving Image a place? A Zone? A Cultural Accumulation Machine to defy COVID-19? First…

Exit Interview: Alex Marsden, AMaGA
After a lifetime career on "the hill" in Canberra and leading Australia's peak organisation for museums and galleries, Alex Marsden…

So you want my arts job: Exhibition Designer
If you have a keen eye for colour, materiality and space, then being an exhibition designer might be the job…

How the new Chau Chak Wing Museum changes thinking
As university faculties are under the pinch nationally, philanthropy has allowed a future ready 21st century museum to lead, by…

ICYMI: The week's top news in the arts
Fringe call out, fundraising conference, DreamBIG Kids Festival, Inaugural Bankstown Biennale, Gordon Bennett survey exhibition, cabaret returns to Sydney, Seventeenth…

Report shows University Art Museums should not be underestimated
A new Survey Report shows that Australian University Art Museums punch well above their weight scale, and are growing in…

ICYMI: The week's top news in the arts
Artists of Colour Scholarship, COVID emotions hotline turned to music, symphony returns to park, Melbourne comes alive with the work…