Heide Museum of Modern Art

Heide Museum of Modern Art Art—Architecture—Landscape
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Heide Museum of Modern Art began life in 1934 as the home of John and Sunday Reed and has since evolved into one of Australia's most important cultural institutions. Heide, as it is affectionately known, has built a national reputation based upon the vision of the Reeds and their role in the development and promotion of modern art in Australia. Inspired by the Reeds' nurturing of the young artists

of their generation, Heide continues to support the contemporary art of today through its collection and exhibition program.

Looking for a special way to celebrate Father's Day? 🌿Join former Heide gardener and author of A Heide Harvest, Alice Cr...
16/08/2026

Looking for a special way to celebrate Father's Day? 🌿

Join former Heide gardener and author of A Heide Harvest, Alice Crowe, for a special Father’s Day tour of Sunday Reed’s Kitchen Gardens 🥦🍅 Enjoy personal insights and anecdotes from Alice as you tour both of Heide's productive gardens.

🗓️ Sunday 6 September, 11am
heide.com.au/events/heide-harvest-fathers-day-garden-tour/

Gift a copy of A Heide Harvest along with the tour for a complete journey into seasonal cooking 📖 The cookbook features original recipes by leading Australian chefs inspired by Sunday’s organic gardening practices, garden-to-plate approach to cooking, and values of nourishment and communality.

Image: Alice Crowe in the Heide Cottage Kitchen Garden, photograph © Robyn Lea

Going out with a bang!💥 Crichton, Tucker, Whiteley: The Chelsea Hotel Years 1967–69 closes this weekend. Don't miss this...
15/08/2026

Going out with a bang!💥 Crichton, Tucker, Whiteley: The Chelsea Hotel Years 1967–69 closes this weekend.

Don't miss this captivating look at three of Australia's most celebrated artists as they navigated New York's competitive avant-garde art scene.

Book today. Members go free 🎟️
heide.com.au/exhibitions/crichton-tucker-whiteley-the-chelsea-hotel-years-1967-69/

Images: Installation views, Crichton, Tucker, Whiteley: The Chelsea Hotel Years 1967–69, 2026, Heide Museum of Modern Art, photographs: Christian Capurro.

Badra Aji's embellished, non-traditional storytelling in Get the boy a dog and call it a day, weaves together personal h...
14/08/2026

Badra Aji's embellished, non-traditional storytelling in Get the boy a dog and call it a day, weaves together personal history with broader social tensions, highlighting marginalised and q***r perspectives.

Closing this weekend, book online to experience this poetic exploration of memory, fear, and longing. Members go free 🎟️

heide.com.au/exhibitions/badra-aji-get-the-boy-a-dog-and-call-it-a-day/

Image: Installation views, Badra Aji: Get the boy a dog and call it a day, 2025, Heide Museum of Modern Art, photographs: Christian Capurro.

Want to be part of Melbourne’s creative scene? ✨ Join the volunteer team at Heide and become a valued part of our commun...
14/08/2026

Want to be part of Melbourne’s creative scene? ✨

Join the volunteer team at Heide and become a valued part of our community.

Contribute to the day-to-day running of the museum and share the story of Heide and our newest exhibitions with visitors. Plus, sign up to a busy calendar of volunteer social events, from craft workshops to film nights 🧶🎞️

Applications close Sunday 6 September 🕒
heide.com.au/volunteer/

📝Thursday 27 August: Info Session
🗓️ Monday 12 October & Saturday 17 October: Compulsory Training Days

According to art critic Robert Hughes, Manhattan's buildings best represent the modern era because of their "metal and g...
13/08/2026

According to art critic Robert Hughes, Manhattan's buildings best represent the modern era because of their "metal and glass severity, and incredible power as a transformer of information and desire.'

Alive with activity and creative potential, 1960s New York drew many artists into its midst including Australian modernists Richard Crichton, Albert Tucker and Brett Whiteley.

Crichton, Tucker, Whiteley: The Chelsea Hotel Years 1967–69, tells the story of three of Australia's most celebrated artists navigating New York's competitive avant-garde art scene during their shared years living at the Chelsea Hotel.

Closing this weekend, book your ticket today. Members go free 🎟️
heide.com.au/exhibitions/crichton-tucker-whiteley-the-chelsea-hotel-years-1967-69/

Image: (1) Richard Crichton in New York, 1967-69, photograph: Florence Crichton, Crichton Family Collection. (2) Albert Tucker in Manhattan, 1967-69, photograph: Richard Crichton, Crichton Family Collection. (3) Richard Crichton at his studio, Bridgehampton, Long Island, New York, 1968, photograph: Florence Crichton, Crichton Family Collection.

A great observer with a deeply humanist perspective, today we wish happy birthday to modernist painter and key member of...
12/08/2026

A great observer with a deeply humanist perspective, today we wish happy birthday to modernist painter and key member of the Heide Circle, Charles Blackman.

Born in 1928, Blackman became a central figure in Melbourne's art scene in the postwar era, exploring themes of alienation, vulnerability and innocence.

Blackman’s schoolgirls, such as the one depicted here, are among his most recognisable works. The series explored mythologies of adolescence, and became emblematic of the urban loneliness that characterised the postwar era.

Several of Charles Blackman's work are currently on display in Heide Cottage as part of Always Modern: Radical Nurture.
heide.com.au/exhibitions/always-modern-radical-nurture/

Image: Charles Blackman, Floating Schoolgirl, 1998, screenprint, Heide Museum of Modern Art Collection, gift of Charles Blackman in memory of Sunday Reed 1998.

'I also recall his hands. In the glowing twilight of the darkroom’s safelight, they were the true protagonists of a sile...
11/08/2026

'I also recall his hands. In the glowing twilight of the darkroom’s safelight, they were the true protagonists of a silent theatre. They moved with a rhythmic, even musical precision. The beam of the enlarger—that narrow, almost sacred ray—seemed to obey them. For hours, I could watch them work, adjust, wait, and reveal. It wasn’t a technical gesture: it was a form of sculpture. For he was literally sculpting his images.'
— Philippe Ribeyrolles (nephew to Brassaï)

Brassaï: Secret Paris is open now.
heide.com.au/exhibitions/brassai/

Be captivated by hidden glimpses of a city alive with cultural innovation. Book today, members go free 🎫

Thanks to our exhibition partners Studio Bright Taubmans Australia and Eco Outdoor

Images: Installation views, Brassaï: Secret Paris, 2026, Heide Museum of Modern Art, photographs: Ruby Taylor.

Ever seen inside the Doll's House? 🏡Tucked away between Heide Cottage and the upper carpark, the Doll's House is a dairy...
09/08/2026

Ever seen inside the Doll's House? 🏡

Tucked away between Heide Cottage and the upper carpark, the Doll's House is a dairy shed turned exhibition space.

When Heide's founders John and Sunday Reed first moved to the property in the 1930s they used the shed for milking their cows. It was later used for storing artworks, famously housing Sidney Nolan's Ned Kelly series after his relationship with the Reeds dissolved.

Today the Doll's House displays a playful sculpture installation by Aleks Danko, that alludes to the building's affectionate name. The work is titled 'Moments of mind ... a breath in time ... (in memory of Sweeney Reed)'.

Image: (1) Ruby Taylor, (2) Sunday Reed working in Heide I vegetable garden in 1936, Heide Archive, (3) Clytie Meredith

Looking for something to do this weekend? 🔎Discover a forgotten Paris - an urban urbanmetropolis and its people cloaked ...
07/08/2026

Looking for something to do this weekend? 🔎

Discover a forgotten Paris - an urban urbanmetropolis and its people cloaked in the transformative atmosphere of the night, illuminated by gas lamps and streetlights.

Brassaï: Secret Paris is open now. Book today and be captivated by hidden glimpses of a city alive with cultural innovation🗼
heide.com.au/exhibitions/brassai/

Image: Installation views, Brassaï: Secret Paris, 2026, Heide Museum of Modern Art, photographs: Astrid Mulder.

In the eyes of Wendy Whiteley the Chelsea Hotel was like a rambling boarding house. George Kleinsinger regularly carried...
05/08/2026

In the eyes of Wendy Whiteley the Chelsea Hotel was like a rambling boarding house. George Kleinsinger regularly carried his pet python to bask in the sunshine while Brett flew kites with the children and the Whiteleys’ ducks wandered among potted plants.

Despite its hot-bed reputation, the hotel was a marvellous human menagerie located in the avant-garde jungle of Manhattan and also a family-oriented place that engendered friendships.

Crichton, Tucker, Whiteley: The Chelsea Hotel Years 1967–69, tells the story of three of Australia's most celebrated artists navigating New York's competitive avant-garde art scene during their shared years living at the Chelsea Hotel.

Book today, members go free 🎟️
eide.com.au/exhibitions/crichton-tucker-whiteley-the-chelsea-hotel-years-1967-69/

image: Brett and Arkie Whiteley (bottom) with the three Crichton children on the roof of the Chelsea Hotel, 1968, photograph: Richard Crichton, Crichton Family Collection.

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Bulleen, VIC
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Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

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