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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.

                    • 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.

                    • City Gifts

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

                    • Crepuscular: the wild animals of Melbourne

                      Crepuscular: the wild animals of Melbourne captured the moment as twilight softens the city’s hard edges, when commuters depart and animals emerge to forage.

                    • From Public Figures to Public Sculpture

                      For the first time, a selection of maquettes and models of sculptures in central Melbourne - from the collection of the City of Melbourne, plus works sourced from private collections and regional galleries - was exhibited in the City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall.

                    • Melbourne's parks and gardens: through the magic lantern

                      It was an educational revolution. In the early 1900s, for the first time, students could sit together in a classroom discussing photographic images projected onto a screen.

                    • Over-paid, over-sexed and over here?

                      This exhibition examined the moving story of U.S. marines' 'friendly invasion' of wartime Melbourne in 1943.

                    • Paper City

                      Paper City, an exhibition at City Gallery, trawled through the vast archive of 'snail mail' sent to the City of Melbourne since the 1840s.

                    • Royal Melbourne

                      During 2012, the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was celebrated – sixty years since she ascended the throne.
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