TarraWarra Museum of Art

TarraWarra Museum of Art
TarraWarra Museum of Art is located in Australia
TarraWarra Museum of Art
Location within Australia
Established2002
LocationHealesville, Victoria, Australia
Coordinates37°39′34.7″S 145°28′9.1″E / 37.659639°S 145.469194°E / -37.659639; 145.469194
TypeArt museum
Websitewww.twma.com.au

TarraWarra Museum of Art is a public art museum in Healesville, Victoria, 45 kilometres northeast of Melbourne, on Wurundjeri Country. Welcoming audiences since 2003, TarraWarra is a leading not-for-profit art gallery that features inventive and stimulating exhibitions and programs about twentieth and twenty-first century art. The Museum has built a reputation for presenting a unique program of exhibitions curated to inspire curiosity and support emerging and established artists to make new work.

TarraWarra Museum of Art Limited was registered in 2000.[1] The Museum was then formally launched by Prime Minister John Howard on 24 April 2002 in a temporary location in North Melbourne, awaiting completion of a purpose-built museum in the Yarra Valley.[2] The Museum building, designed by Alan Powell from architecture firm Powell & Glenn, was opened in 2003.[3] Founded by philanthropists and art collectors, the late Eva Besen AO and Marc Besen AC, it was the first museum of art in Australia supported by a significant private endowment.[4] They not only gifted the award-winning purpose-built Museum designed by the late Allan Powell, they also donated nearly 600 works of Australian art from their private collection

  1. ^ "About Us". TarraWarra Museum of Art. 22 July 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  2. ^ "ParlInfo - Transcript of launch, north Melbourne: Tarrawarra Museum of Art". parlinfo.aph.gov.au. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  3. ^ "Project Overview: TarraWarra Museum of Art by Powell & Glenn / TLP". The Local Project. 27 May 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  4. ^ Thomas, Sarah (Spring 2006). "TarraWarra Museum of Art: A private vision made public". Art and Australia. 44: 14–16.