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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.

                    • Cluster

                      Exploring the stories and patterns behind Melbourne street names​.

                    • Collecting Melbourne

                      An exhibition of the City of Melbourne's art and heritage.

                    • Colonial Confusion

                      Curated by artist megan evans, Colonial Confusion asks us to look at our conflicted relationship to the past to reframe our perspective in the present.

                    • Community Treasures: 100 years of the Royal Historial Society

                      A selection of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria's most interesting items, including photographs, artworks, rare books, archives, ephemera and objects, was displayed in the City Gallery during 2009.

                    • 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.

                    • Desire Lines

                      Curated by Irish artist Sean Lynch, 'Desire Lines' explores emotive and sentient relationships of city life.

                    • Dream Factory: GMH design at Fishermans Bend 1964-2020

                      A stunning exhibition that goes behind the scenes of Australia’s most important industrial design studio and birthplace of GMH iconic cars at Fishermans Bend, Melbourne.

                    • Emblazon: Melbourne’s coat of arms

                      Emblazon: Melbourne’s coat of arms explores an often-unnoticed aspect of the city’s history – its past use, continuing presence and contemporary artistic interpretations.

                    • Executed in Franklin Street

                      Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner, two Aboriginal men from Tasmania, were publicly hanged in Melbourne for murder in 1842.
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