National Gallery of Victoria, Art gallery in Southbank, Melbourne, Australia
The National Gallery of Victoria is an art museum in Southbank on St Kilda Road with modernist architecture and a glass waterfall wall at the entrance. The collections are distributed across multiple floors with galleries of different sizes and natural lighting through skylights.
The museum was founded in 1861 as the first public art museum in Australia and moved to the current St Kilda Road building in 1968. Architect Roy Grounds designed the modernist structure with bluestone and a monumental water curtain.
The collection includes European paintings, Asian ceramics, and Australian works that visitors view in thematically arranged rooms. Rotating exhibitions regularly bring loans from international collections and contemporary installations into the galleries.
The museum opens daily from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM and offers guided tours during the day. Wheelchair-accessible entrances and elevators connect all floors, with cloakrooms located on the ground level.
The 1986 theft of Picasso's Weeping Woman from the gallery was claimed by a group calling itself Australian Cultural Terrorists, who demanded an art prize for young artists as ransom. The painting was found undamaged two weeks later in a station locker.
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