MONA - Museum of Old and New Art

MONA - Museum of Old and New Art Mona is currently open Thursdays to Mondays, 10am–5pm.

27/08/2026

One more song—it's Eddo's final weekend of Transducer and your last chance to give him a song prompt, which he'll transduce into live performance.

https://mona.net.au/stuff-to-do/eddo

‘The quieter you become, the more you can hear.’―Ram Dass, Be Here Now Zia McCabe—she of Dandy Warhols fame, who are set...
24/08/2026

‘The quieter you become, the more you can hear.’
―Ram Dass, Be Here Now

Zia McCabe—she of Dandy Warhols fame, who are set to play the Odeon on 24 November—believes human nature is being eroded by the modern world.

Inspired by Be Here Now, the 1970s manual for conscious living by Ram Dass, McCabe’s unveiling an interactive and surrealish lounge: a space furnished with sound, vibration and movement.

Reset and quiet the mind with See Hear Now, from 26 November 2026.

https://x.mona.net.au/zia-mccabe

'Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.'—Ansel...
01/08/2026

'Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.'
—Anselm Kiefer

MONA Bangkok'MONA Bangkok will take the creative spirit of Mona into a new context. Like the museum in Hobart, it will p...
11/07/2026

MONA Bangkok

'MONA Bangkok will take the creative spirit of Mona into a new context. Like the museum in Hobart, it will present work by leading international artists, while also creating opportunities for meaningful dialogue with Thai artists, audiences and cultural traditions.

The theme of light will be explored both as a physical phenomenon and as a metaphor. Light has long been a source of fascination, reflection and hope across cultures, and it feels especially resonant in Bangkok, with its rich cultural life and deep traditions.'
—Leigh Carmichael

https://x.mona.net.au/mona-bangkok'

All right then, keep your five bucks. Locals no longer need to pay a deposit to visit Mona. Treat yourself. Or the kids—...
09/07/2026

All right then, keep your five bucks.

Locals no longer need to pay a deposit to visit Mona. Treat yourself. Or the kids—there’s a new children's library and school holiday menu on the lawns for the diminutive among us.

A plan suggests itself: mona.net.au/visit

02/07/2026

Never before have we gone to so much trouble to achieve so little.

Video:
Breathe, 2026, Julian Charriére
Banded iron ore, water rendered from banded iron ore, custom reactor, modified Hofmann apparatus, heliostat

20/06/2026

Phrontisterion. In the archonship of David Walsh, in the 16th year of Mona’s founding, Skirophorion 6. Open sesame.

‘That is the thinking house of sapient souls.
There dwell the men who teach—aye, who persuade us,
That Heaven is one vast fire-extinguisher
Placed round about us, and that we’re the cinders …’
—Aristophanes, Clouds

‘I am written into this language. I was not there when it was built. It was built because I was not there.’—Indigo Yeldh...
20/06/2026

‘I am written into this language. I was not there when it was built. It was built because I was not there.’
—Indigo Yeldham

Indigo is the daughter of Joshua and Jo Yeldham, and along with Indigo’s brother Jude, they are all the subject of a monumental artwork that will open tomorrow, with Mona’s new library, Phrontisterion. Indigo ponders her dad’s motives in this essay.

Read more: https://mona.net.au/blog/surrender-room
Follow Phrontisterion: https://x.mona.net.au/ig

‘Over the years I’ve collected books and documents and maps and all things literary and learned. I’m a hoarder (I still ...
18/06/2026

‘Over the years I’ve collected books and documents and maps and all things literary and learned. I’m a hoarder (I still have my sister-gifted copy of Menzel’s Astronomy) so I’ve got an enormous amount of material, but I’ve never shown it. Why is Mona an art museum and not a library? That might be because I was thinking about the nature of creativity, and why it is that we care about beauty, and that was more easily pursued within the aesthetic than the philosophical. Or it might be because I had no original ideas to animate a library.

I’ve sure got one now.’

David Walsh on Phrontisterion: his new library, which he’s been fantasising about since before he was born. Opening this Sunday at long last.

Read more: https://x.mona.net.au/blog
Follow Phrontisterion: https://x.mona.net.au/ig

A tower rises from the waterline, bisected by a slice of nothing.https://x.mona.net.au/in-absenceImages:In Absence (deta...
14/06/2026

A tower rises from the waterline, bisected by a slice of nothing.

https://x.mona.net.au/in-absence

Images:
In Absence (detail), 2019, Yhonnie Scarce, Aaron Roberts and Kim Bridgland
Steel, timber, blown glass, with pigment, vegetation and scent

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Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

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