Queensland Art Gallery, art museum in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery is an art museum on the South Bank of the Brisbane River, housing Australian and international works across several connected gallery rooms. It sits directly next to the Gallery of Modern Art, known as GOMA, and the two buildings together form the QAGOMA complex.
Queensland Art Gallery was founded in 1895 and spent its early decades in central Brisbane before moving to its current building on South Bank in 1982. That move allowed the collection to grow and new galleries to open, including GOMA in 2006.
The gallery is known for its collection of art from the Asia-Pacific region, which gives it a character quite different from a typical Western art museum. Visitors often find works by artists from countries like Indonesia, South Korea, and New Zealand displayed alongside Australian pieces.
Entry to the permanent collection is free, and the building is well signed so it is easy to find your way around. It is worth allowing extra time to visit the neighboring GOMA building as well, since both are part of the same complex and only a short walk apart.
The museum holds one of the largest collections of art from the Asia-Pacific region anywhere in the world, a focus it began building in the 1990s before many other Western institutions took similar directions. Part of the original building was designed with a water mall, an indoor water feature that separates the gallery spaces and is unusual for a museum of this kind.
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