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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.

                    • 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.

                    • Money – Building – Interference

                      Money – Building – Interference traces the various interventions that have occurred since Melbourne's establishment to create the complex urban landscape that defines the city today.

                    • Moomba

                      What's in a name? This exhibition took the festival's name as its departure point, for its meaning and how the festival came to be named Moomba have kept the wheels of urban mythology spinning for decades in this town.

                    • Mostlandian Embassy

                      Part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival, Mostlandia found a temporary outpost at the City Gallery during October 2006. The gallery became the site of the Mostlandian Embassy.

                    • Off the Grid: Invader and Melbourne Street Art in the early 2000s

                      In 2002, the French artist Invader visited Melbourne, installing his iconic mosaic artworks across the city.

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

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

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

                    • 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.

                    • Post No Bills

                      The City of Melbourne's Art and Heritage Collection of posters includes some unlikely survivors of the ravages of time.

                    • 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.
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