Lyon Housemuseum

Designed by architect and collector Corbett Lyon, the Housemuseum builds on a long lineage of private art collections housed and displayed in residential settings including Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, New York’s Frick Collection, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and London's Wallace Collection. Lyon coined the term 'housemuseum' to describe this newly created hybrid architectural t

ype. The Housemuseum displays selected works from the Lyon Collection of contemporary art. The Collection includes paintings, sculpture, video work and installations by many of Australia's leading contemporary artists. The Lyon Collection is one of the largest and most significant collections of its type in the country, offering insights into Australian contemporary art practice from the early 1990s through to the present. The Housemuseum presents works from the Collection in a flowing sequence of spaces, with paintings and large scaled installations juxtaposed with the living spaces and domestic effects of the house. Through this juxtaposition of art and living, the Housemuseum challenges conventional perceptions of 'public' and 'private' and explores new relationships between art and the spaces in which art is viewed. The Housemuseum is open on designated days each year. Please see our website for available visiting times.