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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.

                    • 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.

                    • Cluster

                      Exploring the stories and patterns behind Melbourne street names​.

                    • Good looking: portraits from the City of Melbourne collection

                      Lord mayors, town clerks, British royalty, Moomba royalty and an office worker called Bob – the City of Melbourne’s art collection is full of portraits.

                    • Hello Yellow

                      Melbourne’s taxis – stories, colours and manners.

                    • JetSet Melbourne

                      Critics in the early 60s bemoaned that Melbourne was a ‘stifled city’. The answer? Build an international airport.

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                      The Lost World of the Sands & McDougall’s ‘Directory’ of Melbourne.

                    • Postcode 3000: A city transformed?

                      In 1978, architectural commentator Norman Day described Melbourne as ‘an empty useless city centre’. The city’s transformation since the 1980s has been dramatic.

                    • Special

                      Special takes its title from the cotton armbands worn by volunteer Special Constables (‘Specials’) during the 1923 Melbourne police strike.
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