New exhibition presenting select works from the Lyon Collection including works by artists John Gollings, Shaun Gladwell, Patricia Piccinini and Howard Arkley together with new acquisitions to the museum's permanent collection.
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$12.00 PER PERSON
The original Housemuseum is available for pre-booked guided tours. Please check available tour dates and make a booking here.
$40.00 PER PERSON
Join us for this Saturday afternoon Galleries talk with architect and academic Jarrod Haberfield as he explores the notion of 'succession' in the arc of the house-museum lifecycle.
Looking to international examples we find there's no standard approach for collectors when leaving their homes: at one extreme there's a collection frozen in time by an act of parliament and at the other, a collection installed in a new building designed to mimic the old building from whence it was moved.
In between these extremes there’s the Lyon Housemuseum, which embraces a tightrope walk between permanence and evolution. The talk coincides with the reopening of the Housemuseum and Galleries - two formerly separate buildings now conjoined.
With a Q&A to follow, we're assured of a rich discussion on a complex topic, at a very special moment in time.
Spend the morning learning how to set up a drawing in two-point perspective! Discover the fundamentals of sketching, colouring and master the art of lines and proportions.
Beginners and aficionados are all welcome! Drawing paper and pens provided on the day. Ticket includes admission to the current exhibition at the Housemuseum Galleries.
In June 2023, the Lyon family moved out of their Housemuseum and made an extraordinary gift of the Housemuseum property and collection to the Lyon Foundation. The Housemuseum has now been joined together with the public Galleries to form a single, integrated public museum.
In this illustrated talk, Corbett Lyon will take us on the family's 20-year journey from designing and living in the Housemuseum to this final step in creating one of Melbourne's largest contemporary arts precincts.
Join us for this Sunday afternoon talk with internationally acclaimed photographer John Gollings AM. In this illustrated talk, Gollings will take us on his 60-year journey as a photographer, from acquiring his first camera as a 9-year-old boy to becoming one of Australia’s leading architectural photographers.
Discover the stories behind some of his most iconic and memorable images. Meet the artist and join us for a glass of bubbly following the talk.
Group bookings can be made to join a member of the Galleries team for a 30 minute guided tour through our current exhibition Works from the Lyon Collection. Discover more about the works on display, their relationship to one another and the artists' commitments to their practices and to ongoing experimentations.
Bookings can be made for group of 10 or more.
Cost of tour included in Galleries admission price.