Water wall
At the entrance.
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Australia's oldest and most visited art museum, founded in 1861 with more than seventy thousand works, showing its international collection in a massive bluestone building on St Kilda Road opened in 1968. The building greets visitors with a famous water wall at the entrance, where water runs down the glass and children love to touch it. Inside, the Great Hall has one of the world's largest stained-glass ceilings, and visitors lie on the floor to gaze up at it. The collections range from antiquities of Egypt and ancient Greece to European old masters, Asian and Islamic art, design, fashion and contemporary art, plus major international exhibitions every year. The permanent collection is free, with fees for the major temporary exhibitions, per the gallery. It is close to Federation Square and the Botanic Gardens and suits a rainy day.
At the entrance.
Coloured ceiling.
And Asian art.
St Kilda Road, Southbank, Melbourne
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