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Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
The Ballarat Fine Art Gallery was the first provincial Art
Gallery to be established in Australia. It was set up in 1884 by
a group of interested citizens led by James Oddie. The Gallery
is housed in a stately building in one of the most important
historic precincts in Australia.
The Ballarat Fine Art Gallery possesses the largest and most
comprehensive collection of Australian Art of all Regional
Galleries. The collection of Colonial and Heidelberg School
paintings is particularly well known. The superb collection of
Australian prints and drawings, dating from Cook's voyages to
the present day can be seen here.
There are also the collections of sculpture, ceramics and
costume. The sitting room from the Lindsay home and the large
number of works by the five artists from that family is a
popular feature of the Gallery.
The non-Australian part of the collection includes a remarkable
and rare group of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, and
oriental rugs that were collected early this century by a
Melbourne art patron, and some English and European paintings
and decorative arts from the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries.
The East Point Military Museum
The Royal Australian Artillery Association set up the East Point
Military Museum as an artillery museum to exhibit photographs
and artifacts from Darwin's war time. It is a little known fact
that Darwin was bombed by the Japanese during World War 2. The
64 raids conducted on Darwin lasted for almost 2 years and
killed over 300 people. It is a privately run museum.
The museum is open 7 days a week from 9.30am to 5.00pm.
 National Museum of Australia
The National Museum holds a number of significant collections
relating to each of the three primary subject areas: Land,
People and Nation. Significant elements are a collection of
80,000 stone tools and Australia's largest collection of bark
paintings comprising 1,600 works by numerous artists, spanning
two centuries and the width and breadth of Australia.
Other items in the collection include, convict clothing, leg
irons and tickets of leave, memorabilia of 19th century colonial
migrants from the United Kingdom, paintings from Turkey Creek,
Arnhem Land bark paintings, desert acrylics on canvas from the
Northern Territory and South Australia, 300 sculptures from
Maruku Arts and Crafts at Uluru, the Milne Collection including
artifacts from south-east Australia, the Krips Collection of
stone implements from south-east Australia etc.
Art Gallery of New South Wales
This art gallery has a major collection of Australian, European,
Asian and contemporary artworks. A monumental building, the
gallery holds regular and touring exhibitions from all over the
world.
 National Dinosaur Museum
The museum is in Canberra territory. It houses the largest
permanent dinosaur collection in Australia. Special exhibitions
of new fossils and models are a regular feature of this museum.
South Australian Museum
It is a museum of natural and cultural history. The main work of
the museum is in the fields of anthropology, natural history and
geology.
This museum in Adelaide is very famous for its ethnographic
collections of Aboriginal and early Pacific cultures. |
