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Museums & Galleries NSW (M&G NSW) is the key development agency for the museum and gallery sector in NSW.
M&G NSW will be closing the office from 5pm Friday 24 December 2008 and reopen at 9am Monday 5 January 2009. We hope you enjoy the festive season!
GREAT COLLECTIONS first ever exhibition by all eight NSW State collecting agencies
A landmark exhibition of unique treasures from each of the great NSW State collecting institutions was opened by the Premier and Minister for the Arts, the Hon Mr Nathan Rees, at Campbelltown Arts Centre on Thursday 11 December 2008.
The Botanic Gardens Trust, the Australian Museum, the Art Gallery of NSW, the State Library of NSW, the Powerhouse Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Historic Houses Trust of NSW and State Records NSW are all partners in a landmark showcase of the great collections of New South Wales to be opened by the Premier and Minister for the Arts, the Hon Mr Nathan Rees, at Campbelltown Arts Centre on Thursday 11 December 2008.
Organised and presented by the key development agency for the museums and galleries sector, Museums & Galleries NSW, GREAT COLLECTIONS offers an unprecedented look at the history of collecting in Australia in an exhibition which ‘converges’ material from diverse agencies like never before. From the first botanical specimens gathered by Sir Joseph Banks on Captain Cook’s voyage of 1770 (from the National Herbarium of NSW) to a 2006 parody of a celebration of Cook’s landing by Aboriginal artist, Daniel Boyd (from the nation’s only institution dedicated to contemporary works by living artists – the Museum of Contemporary Art), GREAT COLLECTIONS is a remarkable display of over 115 rare and significant art, objects, documents and curiosities from some of the country’s oldest, most unique and most important public collecting agencies – and a fascinating look at the business of public collecting in Australia.
