Ian Potter Museum of Art

Gallery in Melbourne Art Precinct Victoria Australia

http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au

The Ian Potter Museum of Art manages, displays and interprets an extensive collection ranging from classical antiquity to contemporary art. Exhibitions, research, education programs and publications on Australian and international art offer access to the latest research and debate on art, history and contemporary culture.

In addition to exhibitions, the Potter offers many further activities and services. Lectures, symposia, musical performances, film screenings and membership events present a range of social and cultural activities complementing our exhibitions. On our website, you will find information on these and many of our other offerings.

Christmas holiday closure: Monday 21 December 2009 to Monday 11 January 2010 inclusive

Ian Potter Museum of Art photo

Address
The University of Melbourne, Swanston Street
Melbourne Precinct
Parkville Victoria
3010
Australia

Opening Hours
Tuesday to Friday 10am to 5pm Saturday and Sunday 12 to 5pm Monday closed.
Price
Free
Wheelchair Access

No

Email

Phone
03 8344 5148

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Casts and copies: ancient and classical reproductions

Experimental gentlemen

Ricky Maynard: portrait of a distant land

Trademarks: international indigenous culture from the Leonhard Adam Collection

The posters in this display have been selected from the Gerard Herbst Poster Collection, which includes more than 2000 individual posters donated to the university in 1996 by Gerard Herbst and managed by the Potter.

The graphic wit of Roland Topor: posters from the Gerard Herbst Poster Collection

Ancient coins: heads and tales from antique lands

There’s no time: John Spiteri, Mira Gojak, Bradd Westmoreland, Karl Wiebke

Highlights of the University of Melbourne Art Collection

The Art in Focus series of one-room exhibitions includes displays that provide a context for one or more related works from the University of Melbourne Art Collection.

Tim Jones: the phantom and the city

Man painted black wearing footy shorts, yellow paint smeared around mouth, stuffed toy tiger hanging on head, sculptural implements hanging around him.

Basil Sellers Art Prize 2010

Devotion and ritual

This exhibition continues the Potter’s recent exploratory approaches to the long-term display of the University of Melbourne Art Collection. Rather than a selection based on theme, collection or historical period, this exhibition will include key artworks considered by curators as the most impressive and valuable.

The University of Melbourne Art Collection

New acquisitions 2007–10

Raafat Ishak: Recipes for aversion and strategy.

Melbourne Brisbane: punk, art and after

Texts and textiles

The Shilo project

Part two of a display that incorporates the rotation of focus artworks and key series.

Highlights from the University of Melbourne Art Collection

Journeys and places

Thoughtful portrait of Australian Aboriginal man

Reframing Darwin

Sandstone sculpture of female head

Selected artefacts from the David and Marion Adams Collection

Highlights from the University of Melbourne Art Collection, part 1

Aboriginal bark painting

Ancestral power and the aesthetic

Colourful, pained face portrait in expressionist style

Other side art: Trevor Nickolls

Hanging rope