About the museum
The story of the National Gallery of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne was founded in 1861 and is the oldest and most visited art museum in Australia. Its main building on St Kilda Road is famous for its stained-glass Great Hall ceiling.
It holds international art from antiquity to the present, including Rembrandt, Tiepolo and Picasso, while the Ian Potter Centre at Federation Square shows Australian art.
The collection
The NGV holds more than 75,000 works. Its international collection includes Tiepolo's The Banquet of Cleopatra, Rembrandt, Rubens, Monet and Picasso's Weeping Woman, made possible by the Felton Bequest, one of the largest art endowments in the world.
The Ian Potter Centre at Federation Square shows Australian art from First Nations works to the Heidelberg School of Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton.
At ArtLogia you can order 44 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 40 artists led by Tom Roberts, Frederick McCubbin and Clarkson Frederick Stanfield.
- paintings to order
- 44
- artists
- 40
- art movements
- 12
- years covered
- 1423–1920
The building
Roy Grounds designed the bluestone building on St Kilda Road, opened in 1968, with a water wall at its entrance and the stained-glass ceiling of the Great Hall by Leonard French.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
Lie down on the floor of the Great Hall to look up at Leonard French's stained-glass ceiling, as many Melburnians do.
