Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery

18/06/2026

Meet the ACMI artist: David Rozetzky 🎥 ✨

One of Australia’s finest video artists, David Rosetzky’s captivating works have been exhibited widely throughout Australia and internationally.

Now showing at the Art Gallery at Royal Park, Gaps embodies Rosetzky’s ongoing exploration of personal identity and the relationship – or ‘gaps’ – between self and other through speech, movement and dance.

A Melbourne-based artist and educator with an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to art making. With an extensive exhibition history both in Australia and overseas, Rosetzky has presented his work in over 30 solo exhibitions and 60 group exhibitions.

Drawing from material Rosetzky gathered conducting interviews with his cast, Gaps is an oblique survey of the transition from rehearsal to performance, in both art and life.

The artist’s process involved in-depth workshopping of the material with the performers, who come from acting and dance disciplines.

Watch Gaps as part of Between the Lines - now on display at the Art Gallery at Royal Park with free entry.

BETWEEN THE DETAILS: VIDEO ART FROM THE ACMI COLLECTION
1 June 2026 – 6 December 2026
Art Gallery at Royal Park, 2 Wellington Street
Free entry | Open 10am to 4pm daily
An ACMI touring exhibition.





The works in this exhibition are commissioned by ACMI, Artbank, Bundanon, Carriageworks, City of Melbourne, Melbourne Art Foundation, Professor Cav. Simon Mordant AO and Catriona Mordant AM, John Allsopp (Web Directions) and assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts.

Image: David Rosetzky, Gaps, 2014 (video still).

17/06/2026

Celebrating Pride Month: LIVE this weekend at the Museum 🎤

This Saturday, join artist dr Merri Randell and voice coach Bec Tilley for a playful, exploratory voice workshop that invites participants to experience their voices in non traditional, joyful ways.

At the end of each workshop, set within the Rainbow Stable's Celebrating Identity: Activism and Ecstasy exhibition, participants will have the option to co‑create an improvised polyphonic soundscape.

With consent, this audio will be recorded and embedded into dr Merri’s evolving artwork CUSP – allowing participants to hear themselves woven into the living sound ecology of the exhibition.

Art + Performance: Voicing Q***r + Ally
FREE event, 1pm to 3.30pm, Saturday 20 June
Don't miss out - register online to join 👉 bit.ly/4fQGovY

13/06/2026

🌈 Our next Art + Performance event: Voicing Q***r + Ally 🎤🌈

Celebrate International Pride Month with an immersive live sound workshop at the Museum at Inveresk.

Join artist dr Merri Randell and voice coach Bec Tilley in Rainbow Stable's Celebrating Identity: Activism and Ecstasy exhibition for a playful, exploratory voice workshop 🎶

Participants are invited to experience their voices in non‑traditional, joyful ways across two one-hour workshop sessions on Saturday 20 June at 1pm and 2:30pm. You may register for one or both – they are identical – or simply attend as an audience member.

🎨 Between 2pm–2:30pm, everyone is welcome to explore the exhibition and meet some of the artists featured in Celebrating Identity: Activism and Ecstasy.

No bookings are required for general drop‑in attendance, but bookings are requested for the workshops. Choose the 1pm session, the 2.30pm session, or both – register at bit.ly/4e6q7ld

At the end of each workshop, participants will have the option to co‑create an improvised polyphonic soundscape. With consent, this audio will be recorded and embedded into dr Merri’s evolving artwork CUSP – allowing participants to hear themselves woven into the living sound ecology of the exhibition. 🎵

ART + PERFORMANCE: Voicing Q***r + Ally
Saturday20 June 2026, 1pm to 3:30pm
Museum at Inveresk | 2 Invermay Road
FREE event | Workshop registrations 🔗 bit.ly/4e6q7ld





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Image: 'Bec @ the CUSP', courtesy of dr Merri Randell (detail)

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12/06/2026

OPENING THIS WEEKEND: Out of the Vault ✨

QVMAG's latest collection exhibition provides a unique opportunity to bring unexpected objects, hidden favourites, and overlooked curiosities back into public view.

Selected by members of the QVMAG team, Out of the Vault is designed for audiences to encounter the remarkable breadth of the QVMAG collection as a world shaped by innumerable people, perspectives, and personalities over time.

The chosen objects and artworks move between the historical, humorous, beautiful and the bizarre. Out of the Vault reminds us that museums are living collections – constantly changing, growing, and revealing new stories depending on who is looking, and why.

OUT OF THE VAULT
13 June – 24 August 2026
Art Gallery at Royal Park, 2 Wellington Street
Free entry | Open 10am to 4pm daily

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Image: Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899), Cheval Nomad 1880. Oil on canvas. Gift of Mona Potterton, 2010. QVM:2011:FP:0006.

11/06/2026

NOW SHOWING - Between the Details: Video Art from the ACMI Collection ✨

Showcasing five moving image artworks by Australian artists, this exhibition celebrates ACMI’s vibrant collecting and commissioning program.

Working in video offers artists the opportunity to use editing as their primary technique; mixing and matching elements from other films or their own work to tell new stories.

By remixing or rearranging footage they build different rhythms and moods, create hilarious juxtapositions or shed new light on cultural cliches and presumed histories. The works in this exhibition all demonstrate an irrepressible desire to bring deep themes to the surface with humour and an incredible attention to detail.

ACMI’s collection has a rich, 75-year history from its inception as the State Film Centre in 1946. Since its incarnation as ACMI in the early 2000s, the collection has expanded to include artworks and experimental film. ACMI now holds a significant archive of complex, time-based media works and videogames, as well as an ever-expanding repository of digitised content and born-digital material.

View this extraordinary collection of works at the Art Gallery at Royal Park - open daily with free entry.

BETWEEN THE DETAILS: VIDEO ART FROM THE ACMI COLLECTION
1 June 2026 – 6 December 2026
Art Gallery at Royal Park, 2 Wellington Street
Free entry | Open 10am to 4pm daily
An ACMI touring exhibition.





The works in this exhibition are commissioned by ACMI, Artbank, Bundanon, Carriageworks, City of Melbourne, Melbourne Art Foundation, Professor Cav. Simon Mordant AO and Catriona Mordant AM, John Allsopp (Web Directions) and assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts.

Image: Deborah Kelly, The Gods of Tiny Things, 2019 (video still).

07/06/2026

🎻 Experience an extraordinary afternoon of music and art with internationally acclaimed violinist Peter Tanfield.

Returning to the Art Gallery at Royal Park, Out of the Vault and Onto the Strings invites audiences into an intimate solo performance set among QVMAG's collection.

Responding to selected works from the upcoming exhibition Out of the Vault, Tanfield will perform a carefully curated program featuring music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Niccolò Paganini and Eugène Ysaÿe – composers who have helped inspire and shape his remarkable career across the world stage.

Surrounded by artworks and objects drawn from QVMAG's vast collection, this unique event creates a thoughtful dialogue between sound, memory and material culture. Join us for this rare opportunity to experience the collection in a new and deeply personal way - book today at bit.ly/4xcfDIt.

PETER TANFIELD: Out of the Vault and Onto the Strings
Saturday 27 June 2026 | 2pm-3pm
Art Gallery at Royal Park | 2 Wellington Street
Ticketed event: General Admission $42 | Concession $38 | Friends of QVMAG $35
Bookings essential 🔗 bit.ly/4xcfDIt





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05/06/2026

ICYMI: the opening weekend of Beautiful Tensions: Gray Street Workshop celebrates forty years ✨

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our two-day celebration, including the exhibition launch on Saturday 30 May and In Conversation event on Sunday 31 May.

Guests at the opening were treated to the first look at the exhibition, while those who came to the artist talk enjoyed an insightful discussion with current Gray Street artists Jess Dare, Lisa Furno, Sue Lorraine and Catherine Truman; joined by QVMAG Director Jonathan McBurnie and original Gray Street Workshop founding member Anne Brennan.

Celebrating forty years of one of Australia’s most respected artist-run studios., Beautiful Tensions explores connection, contrast and the spaces in between through a captivating collection of contemporary works. Now showing at the Art Gallery at Royal Park with free entry.

BEAUTIFUL TENSIONS: GRAY STREET WORKSHOP CELEBRATES FORTY YEARS
30 May 2026 – 30 August 2026
Art Gallery at Royal Park, 2 Wellington Street
Free entry | Open 10am to 4pm daily

Beautiful Tensions: Gray Street Workshop celebrates forty years is a JamFactory touring exhibition supported by the Visions of Australia touring program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to cultural material for all Australians.






Images: QVMAG.

04/06/2026

Final call: Anatomy Lessons ⏳

It’s your last chance to catch the hauntingly beautiful artwork of Michele Beevors – where art, science and environmental storytelling combine in the form of remarkable hand-knitted skeletal sculptures.

🧶 Through meticulous craftsmanship and striking scale, these works invite us to reflect on the natural world, extinction, and our relationship with other species.

Be sure to take this final opportunity to explore this thought-provoking exhibition before it closes on Sunday at the Museum at Inveresk.

ANATOMY LESSONS
Museum at Inveresk, 2 Invermay Road
CLOSING 4pm, Sunday 7 June 2026
Free entry | 10am to 4pm daily





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03/06/2026

Transform treasured memories into wearable art ✨

Join artist Jude Walsh for our next Arts on Site workshop at the Art Gallery at Royal Park. Be inspired by the stunning exhibition Beautiful Tensions: Gray Street Workshop celebrates forty years as you explore ways of giving new life to textiles, clothing, and small objects that hold personal meaning.

🪡 Participants are invited to bring garments, scraps of fabric, or tiny items to repurpose into unique wearable pieces. With Jude’s guidance, learn simple jewellery-making and embroidery techniques to create one-of-a-kind works infused with your stories and experiences.

Spaces are limited for this workshop – book today at bit.ly/4vpKe3p. Bring a friend and enjoy our 2-for-1 special ✨

ARTS ON SITE WORKSHOP
Threads of Memory with Jude Walsh
Friday 26 June, 11am – 2:30pm
Art Gallery at Royal Park, 2 Wellington St
Bookings 🔗 bit.ly/4vpKe3p





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Transform treasured textiles and small keepsakes into upcycled jewellery at the Art Gallery at Royal Park.

29/05/2026

It’s been a frogtastic few weeks at the Museum at Inveresk 🐸🧶✨

Last week, the creations from our Knit-a-Frog workshops were officially unveiled, with 24 handmade amphibians added to The Last Plague – the striking frog skeleton installation by Michele Beevors currently featured in Anatomy Lessons.

More than 40 participants joined the free workshop series, gathering in the QVMAG Friends Lounge to knit, create and connect. A special thank you to Edwina Brown for guiding and facilitating the sessions 🙌

You can now spot these new additions in Anatomy Lessons – now entering its final week at QVMAG. Don’t miss your last chance to experience this fascinating exhibition before it closes next Sunday.

ANATOMY LESSONS
Museum at Inveresk, 2 Invermay Road
CLOSING 4pm, Sunday 7 June 2026
Free entry | 10am to 4pm daily






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