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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.

                    • In Response to Place

                      Indigenous artist and curator Ricky Maynard documented inner-city Melbourne in this exhibition, In Response to Place.

                    • Ink in the Blood

                      Ink in the Blood maps the vivid life of Melbourne’s big newspapers and their deep imprint on the city, its culture and collective psyche.

                    • JetSet Melbourne

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

                    • Lost & Found

                      The Museum of Modern Oddities' (MoMO) Lost & Found was a performed examination of some of the things we lose and find.

                    • Making a Show of It

                      Making a Show of It retrieved An Aboriginal Moomba and Corroboree from being mere footnotes to the history of Melbourne's performing arts and examined Indigenous entertainers and entrepreneurs in 1950s Melbourne.

                    • Marginalia

                      Marginalia was an exhibition of works produced by six visual researchers from Monash University, who were invited to explore the archive, art collection and site of the Melbourne Town Hall.

                    • Melbourne 1950–1959

                      Melbourne 1950–1959 was a photographic exhibition exploring the changing face of the city in a decade of radical transformation.

                    • Melbourne Authentic

                      Melbourne Authentic focused on how the city's coat of arms was developed over time, the tools and means used in displaying the arms and the ways the arms have been used to authenticate Melbourne. It also features the work of an exemplary heraldist, the late Horace K. Hall.

                    • Melbourne's Breweries

                      Melbourne's brewing industry sustained a presence in and around the city centre long into the 20th century. It outlasted other city factories and maintained industrial life among the retail and office workplaces of the city.

                    • Melbourne's Newsboys

                      Crutchey, Tabby-cats, Spud, Little Charlie, Curley and all their mates – Melbourne salutes its vanished newsboys!
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