A colourful art exhibition with a sculpture and letter painting on the walls.

³Ô¹ÏÍø's must-see exhibitions

From giant interactive installations to pop-up galleries featuring internationally renowned art, these exhibitions cannot be missed.

Free exhibitions

Three people interacting with a neon light installation in a gallery.
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Distraction

An exhibition that plugs into the torrent of content and places we go when craving distraction.

Designer Nipa Doshi standing in front of her installation of designed pieces at the National Gallery of Victoria.
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MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission: Nipa Doshi

Designer Nipa Doshi explores beauty, plurality and diversity in her handcrafted cabinet.

Black and white photograph from the 1960s of model, Twiggy, wearing a mini-dress at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø Cup.
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Swinging 60s

Did the sixties really swing in Victoria? A new exhibition from the Old Treasury Building.

An artist painting in a workshop with brightly coloured murals on the wall, artist's materials on the floor.
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Creative Acts: Artists and their inspirations

Step inside the unseen inner worlds of artists at State Library Victoria.

Two people seated below a neon sign.
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The Story of the Moving Image

A permanent exhibition that journeys through the past, present and future of the moving image.

Historic photo of protesters at a women's rights demonstration.
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Protest ³Ô¹ÏÍø

An exhibition about Victoria's long history of public protest.

Animator and filmmaker Adam Elliot working on a claymation set, adjusting characters.
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Making Memoir of a Snail

Explore handmade sets, props and characters from Adam Elliot's claymation film Memoir of a Snail.

Looking up from ground view at a person jumping off a futuristic building.
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Ayoung Kim – Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0° Receiver

The Korean artist creates a multiverse that blurs boundaries between space, time and self.

A woman walking through a display with shelves of military-style food packages.
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Taste of Combat

Honouring the vital work of the Catering Corps and the evolution of military food.

An early watercolour painting of ³Ô¹ÏÍø's Yarra River.
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Yarra: Stories of ³Ô¹ÏÍø's River

Explores the chequered history of the stream we call the ‘city’s river’.

A colourful woven artwork with different textures and patterns representing a map.
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Hyperworlds: Unreal Cartography

An exhibition from Allanah Sarafian exploring maps as emotional and ideological objects.

A drypoint etching in monotones depicting an industrial scene.
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Louise Donovan: Common Ground

Nineteen everyday moments in intimate drypoint by ³Ô¹ÏÍø artist, Louise Donovan

A person wearing an apron, seated at a table as part of am art workshop, using a paintbrush to apply paint to paper.
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Festival of Veterans Arts

Enjoy this veteran-led arts festival with exhibitions, performances, workshops and family events.

A person holding paintbrushes stands in an art studio with a colorful abstract painting hanging on the wall.
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Anna Pelc: All the Places I’ve Been

A retrospective exhibition that brings together artworks created over the past decade.

Cartoon of a movie camera topped with tiny figures.
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Behind the Lines: Are We Rolling?

An exhibition exploring all the twists and turns of another turbulent year in Australian politics.

A black and white detail of a bridge pylon showing metal and stone construction.
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Greg Branson: Manifesto ³Ô¹ÏÍø

This exhibition invites viewers to see ³Ô¹ÏÍø through the lens of influential photographers.

An abstract, dark sculpture resembling two seahorses against a bright blue background with wavy lines.
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Frances Loriente: What Would We Be if We Were Under the Sea

This exhibition by Frances Loriente explores our connection to the sea and its creatures.

Korean artwork of a butterfly and tubular flowers.
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Stories of Blessing: Modern Echoes of Minhwa by Minhwa Group

Korea’s traditional folk art, rooted in ancient Goguryeo wall paintings.

A close up of a woman's eye with pink roses beside her face.
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Abundance: The Pleasure of Plenty

Australian artists celebrating beauty and sensory richness.

An artwork featuring a central figure in a red ballet costume with white patterns, set against a brown and gold background with white, ghostly figures and red strings stretched across the composition.
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A Trilogy of Artistry

Paintings and mixed media works from Lauren Wicks, Jane Docherty and Deborah Amon-Cotter.

Blockbuster exhibitions

Two individuals talking to each other inside ³Ô¹ÏÍø Museum at night, with blue lighting.
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Nocturnal: Museum After Dark

Experience ³Ô¹ÏÍø Museum after hours, when the doors stay open and the night belongs to adults.

Purple-lit dark room with screens.
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Game Worlds

ACMI's new playable exhibition features more than 30 videogames from the 1970s to today.

Elton John in the 1970s wearing large spectacles and satin suit with Cher wearing Bob Mackie midriff-revealing strappy gown and Diana Ross wearing feather and sequin gown.
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DIVA

From opera stars to pop icons, celebrate the power and creativity of the diva.

A person taking a photo of two mannequins dressed in colourful clothing in a fashion exhibition.
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Westwood | Kawakubo

NGV’s summer exhibition pairs two icons of the fashion world, Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo.

People dressed at F1 drivers with helmets on, leaning back as if seated.
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The F1 Exhibition

The F1 Exhibition makes its long-awaited debut in Australia.

Events, talks and tours

A wall covered in framed images and photographs and displayed very close together.

Art and Heritage Collection Tour

Take a free guided tour of the art and heritage collection at ³Ô¹ÏÍø Town Hall.

The back of two people standing and looking at an 18th century oil painting in a heavy gold frame hanging on a white gallery wall.
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Best of NGV International Tour

Join an expert for a guided tour to uncover the unexpected and overlooked within the NGV Collection.

People on a tour at the Immigration Museum, looking over a table with a video display.

Immigration Museum Guided Highlights Tour

Immigration Museum Guided Highlights Tour

An impressionist painting of trees in blossom.
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The Lost Impressionist Art Tours

Discover ³Ô¹ÏÍø's artistic story and its connection to Monet with this unique group walking tour.

Last updated on Mon 3 Nov 2025

Only In The City

Only in this City of Ours
People milling around Fed Square at night.

³Ô¹ÏÍø's essential night-time events

From hidden laneway markets to epic pop-ups, ³Ô¹ÏÍø gets lit once the lights go out.

A crowd of people sitting on picnic blankets at an outdoor cinema at sunset.

The best pop-up and outdoor cinemas in ³Ô¹ÏÍø

Find the best outdoor cinema, pop-up theatres and free movies.

People sitting on cushions on a vast lawn in front of a large outdoor movie screen.
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Moonlight Cinema

Kick back with a film under the stars at ³Ô¹ÏÍø’s most spectacular open-air cinema.

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Georgian-style doll's house on a stand in a room with period furnishings including armchair and footstool, draped curtains and paintings.
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Home Comforts

Experience Georgian and Regency family life ‘at home’ at the Johnston Collection.

An ant moving a green circle on a rock.
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A velvet ant, a flower and a bird

Step into a garden of knowledge anchored by three familiar figures from nature.

Artwork showing grey-washed sketches of a chaise lounge and lamp with another green chaise lounge and a bisected grey circle.
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Marise Maas: The Knot

Raw, expressive paintings capture the absurdity of life’s knotty moments.

An abstract landscape painting in green and earthy tones.
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Melissa Boughey: Step Outside

Melissa Boughey’s wetland studio offers new way of seeing.