© Musée Marmottan Monet - Monet’s Garden: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
King Kong, opens June 2013, Regent Theatre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Melbourne International Film Festival 2012

MIFF 2013

25 July – 11 August

Save a seat for Melbourne's International Film Festival. Join the movie marathon across town.

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The Light in Winter, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia. Photo: Mike Hauser.

Light in Winter

1−30 June

From dusk each night in June, discover song, sculpture, art and culture in Fed Square.

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Hollywood Costume, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Art, theatre & culture

Step out and see blockbuster shows, call in on art masters, and discover the next big thing at tiny galleries, theatres and cabaret halls across Victoria.

Highlights

  • Visitors out the front of Scienceworks

    Scienceworks

    Journey to the stars and beyond at the Melbourne Planetarium, travel through space and time, and have a hair-raising encounter with lighting volts.

  • Heide III

    Heide Museum of Modern Art

    Heide Museum of Modern Art, or Heide as it is affectionately known, began life in 1935 as the Melbourne home of John and Sunday Reed and has evolved...

  • TarraWarra Museu courtyard

    TarraWarra Museum of Art

    The TarraWarra Museum of Art is the first privately funded, significant public visual arts museum to be set up under the Australian Government's...

  • Persona title image

    Persona

    An actress loses her power to speak and soon finds the boundaries between her identity and that of her nurse dangerously unstable. Adena Jacobs'...

  • Gum San

    Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre

    Unearth the critical and quirky contributions of the Chinese miners who came to the Victorian goldfields in the 1850s, through interactive exhibits.

  • National Gallery of Victoria

    National Gallery of Victoria

    Appreciate art and surrounds at the two NGV spaces - the iconic original housing international art and the newer, light-filled home of local works.

 
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Art galleries

Victoria's thriving visual arts scene boasts hundreds of galleries ranging from the National Gallery of Victoria to small cooperatives. blah

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Theatre Royal, Castlemaine, Goldfields, Victoria, Australia

Theatre and musicals

See big names and blockbuster productions in historic theatres, and discover local talent with new work on tiny stages hidden in laneways.

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Flagstaff Hill sound and laser show, Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia

Museums

From the living history of Sovereign Hill to the wonder of Scienceworks, there are many worlds to explore in Victoria's museums.

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The Temptations, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Music and performing arts

Choose any night of the week to indulge in Melbourne's local and international opera, ballet, comedy, live music, plays, performing arts and openings.

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Architecture in Castlemaine, Goldfields, Victoria, Australia

Architecture

Journey into Victoria's marvellous gold rush history and visit the future as you explore imposing historic buildings and contemporary masterpieces.

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State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Literature

Discover what makes Melbourne a UNESCO City of Literature, reading up on local literary culture, creative talent and the best haunts for book lovers.

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Public art in Hosier Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Photo credit: Ben King

Public art

Take in art from the City Circle tram, or walk through city streets, laneways and squares and along the Yarra River to see the city's public artworks.

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What's on

  • Jun 2013

    Wild

    Wild: Amazing animals in a changing world

    Be surrounded by the wonderful diversity of mammals, birds and reptiles from around the world in Melbourne Museum’s permanent exhibition, 'Wild:...

  • Jun 2013

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    Lizzy Sampson and Alice Wormald

    Lizzy Sampson's work responds to the social and political conditions of her time. Through the transparency of information 'Consumer Behaviour'...

  • Jun 2013

    Leaving Dublin

    Leaving Dublin Photographic Exhibition

    'Leaving Dublin: Photographs by David Monahan' showcases the stories of Irish migrants who have left their home country over the last three years and...

  • Jun 2013

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    Thrown: Studio Ceramics from the Kenneth Hood Bequest

    Thrown: Studio Ceramics from the Kenneth Hood Bequest traces the history and evolution of studio ceramics. Over 70 works from Kenneth Hood’s...

  • Jun 2013

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    Containment: Cicely & Colin Rigg Award

    The theme of 'containment' will be explored by fourteen Victorian artists for the 2012 Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award. The Award...

  • Jun 2013

    trams exhibition

    Trams: Moving Pictures

    Between 1978 and 1993, the Ministry for the Arts initiated the 'Transporting Art' project, commissioning famous Australian artists to paint...

  • Jun 2013

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    MGPO's Heritage Lights Project

    MGPO is shining a whole new light on Melbourne this summer. To celebrate its recent restoration works, beams of light are projected on the building...

  • Jun 2013

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    Kings Over the Water

    In 1688, James II, the Catholic King of England, Scotland and Ireland, was ousted by parliament in the Glorious Revolution and fled into exile in...

  • Jun 2013

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    Zheng He Treasure Hunt – Chinese Museum

    Navigate your way through history with the Chinese Museum's Children's Treasure Hunt. Your guide is the famous Chinese navigator Zheng He, who lived...

  • Jun 2013

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    Warwick Thornton: Mother Courage

    Acclaimed Indigenous filmmaker and artist Warwick Thornton has a distinctive and powerful cinematic voice. He won the Cannes Film Festival's Camera...

  • Jun 2013

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    Things of Fire and Ash: Remembering Black Saturday

    'Things of Fire and Ash' commemorates the strength of Kinglake's young people. The photographic portraits, taken by Melbourne artist Lilli Waters,...

  • Jun 2013

    Floating gardens

    Airborne

    As part of the City of Melbourne 2013 Arts Grants Program, artist Lloyd Godman will install Airborne - the world's largest series of...

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