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                    Exhibition archive

                    In the Melbourne Town Hall, City Gallery presents a free, annual program of exhibitions that draw on the City of Melbourne’s extensive art and heritage collection.

                    Devised by specialist curators, each show explores aspects of the city’s cultural, historical and artistic life.

                    • (mis)Information Bureau

                      The Museum of Modern Oddities (MoMO) – the award-winning creators of Lost & Found – returned to the City Gallery in 2006 with (mis)Information Bureau.
                    • A History of the Future: Imagining Melbourne

                      In 2016, the City of Melbourne’s ‘Future Melbourne 2026’ project urges Melburnians to consider their city for the decade ahead. So what better time to reflect on the kinds of futures that were imagined for Melbourne in the past.
                    • A New Jerusalem

                      What function do places of worship have in Melbourne today? Does their value lie in their history, or do they have a continuing role to play as places of peace in the rush of the technological age?
                    • An Incident in Swanston Street

                      This exhibition re-positions a European painting of an encounter between 'explorer' Sturt and Aboriginal peoples of the Murray from a contemporary Koori perspective.
                    • At dusk, under the clocks

                      From 1968-71, high school teacher Angus O'Callaghan walked Melbourne in the evening in his spare time, photographing its streets, people and events on two Yashicaflex medium format cameras.
                    • Between the Street and the Sky

                      A provocation for Melbourne.
                    • Bluestone Lounge Room

                      This exhibition charted the often ubiquitous and yet invisible design of public space through the efforts of the City of Melbourne's urban design and industrial design teams.
                    • Camp As...

                      Camp As... explored the history of homosexual (or 'camp', in the parlance of the time) Melbourne in the 1950s.
                    • City Gifts

                      This exhibition showcases the gifts received and collected by the City of Melbourne during the 20th century.
                    • City Songs

                      The city is always singing.
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