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Things to do in Melbourne, Victoria: The Best Art Museums
Lovely, laid-back Melbourne has something for everyone: family fare, local and international art, haute boutiques, multicultural dining, Australian and Aboriginal history, spectator sports, and pulsing, swanky nightlife. Cruise on the free City Circle Tram loop to check out unique attractions like the Royal Botanical Gardens and the Healesville Sanctuary, which buzzes with local animal species.
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1. RMIT Gallery
2. Museum of Chinese Australian History
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4.5 based on 163 reviews
Located in the heart of Melbourne's Chinatown, the Chinese Museum's five floors showcase the heritage and culture of Australia's Chinese community. Our purpose is to operate a museum, to promote and preserve Chinese Culture and history - especially of Australian-Chinese history in Australia.
Reviewed By Leatraveler - Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne's Chinese history is really interesting. The unspoken yellow tax of Australian's history is revealed here. In the heart of China town and free on Chinese New Year.
3. Craft Victoria
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4.5 based on 3 reviews
Craft Victoria is a national leader in the craft and design sector, promoting a cutting-edge vision of hand-crafted practice in the 21st century. For 50 years Craft Victoria has supported the growth of thousands of makers, nurtured hundreds of small creative businesses and challenged the boundaries of craft practice. Craft has built a vibrant and sustainable contemporary craft and design community by supporting, showcasing and celebrating all craft disciplines. Craft is the only organisation within Victoria which provides curatorial, public program and professional development opportunities for craft practitioners. Craft’s headquarters in Melbourne has become a hub for audiences and makers working across ceramics, furniture, jewellery, textiles, fibre and glass to gather, view, discuss and celebrate works by many of Australia’s most highly regarded craft practitioners.
4. Hellenic Museum
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4.0 based on 62 reviews
A cultural hub supporting arts, film, and visual performance Australia wide, with a Hellenic flavour. Housed in the historic Former Royal Mint building, the Museum is home to the long-term collection Gods, Myths & Mortals: Greek Treasures Across the Millennia from the iconic Benaki Museum, Athens. The collection provides a snapshot of Greek history, from Classical, to Byzantine, Post-Byzantine, and Neo-Hellenic, winding through 8,000 years of Greek civilisation around the ground floor of the Mint, including the original gold vault. From October 2015 the Museum will be the new home to Sean Godsell's award-winning MPavilion. The Museum holds events throughout the year, from the popular Summer Cinema program, to theatre, live music, and lectures. The first floor is currently closed due to infrastructure works, set to reopen mid-2016.
Reviewed By saronic - Zurich, Switzerland
When travelling in Greece, especially the islands, I regularly meet Greek-Australians from Melbourne visiting the home of their ancestors. And in Greece they say that Melbourne were the 3rd largest Greek speaking city in the world, after Athens and Thessaloniki. On my first evening in Melbourne I happened to be served at a restaurant by a Greek-Australian lady, who told me that there were over 150'000 Australians of Greek origin living in Melbourne. A visit to the Hellenic Museum was definitely a must for me and I didn't regret it, although I had expected to find mainly information about Greek immigration to Australia, when it was more a general museum about Hellenic culture from antiquity till the creation of the modern Greek state in the 19th century. The Hellenic Museum, which opened in 2007, is housed in the former Royal Mint, an attractive Neo-Renaissance building from the 1870's. The number of exhibits on two floors is small, but there are some choice items: from a Cycladic figurine to Corinthian and Attic pottery to sculptures from the Roman period to Byzantine religious objects, to textiles and jewellry from the Post-Byzantine period (in fact the time of the Ottomans) to the 19th century War of Independence. With this wide span of periods covered the museum reminds one of the much larger Benaki Museum in Athens, with which there is apparently a collaboration. There is also modern art, inspired by antiquity, to be seen, such as the sculpture of a winged female by Sam Jinks and photos by Bill Henson. At the back is the cafe restaurant 'Arcadia' and there is also a souvenir shop.
5. FortyFiveDownstairs
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4.0 based on 5 reviews
Reviewed By WorldTravla7 - Cairns, Australia
This is a brilliant little boutique venue that attracts some great independent theatre and art exhibitions. The theatre space is craftily located in the basement down several flights of stairs giving an edgy, alternative vibe as you literally head underground into an intimate space where anything may await you. I saw Tony Kushner’s ‘Angels in America’ and the venue helped give the illusion you’d moved downstairs into another world. There are bar facilities in the downstairs area and a flashy restaurant upstairs at the main Flinders Lane entrance. Fortyfivedownstairs is a great staple in the Melbourne arts scene landscape. You should have no problem catching an event as there is usually always something on (independent theatre, music, or visual art exhibition).
6. Arc One Gallery
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3.5 based on 2 reviews
