Canberra Exhibitions

When visiting Canberra exhibitions are a strong attraction.

And there are plenty of them.

Whether you go to the National Gallery of Australia, or National Portrait Gallery, or Australia Museum, or any other Canberra art gallery you can find something.

The exhibitions are there for a short time only, and change often, so go to the website of all the museums and see what is on.

Masterpieces from Paris

It is considered to be the greatest collection of French art visiting Australia.

This is a collection on loan from the Musee d’Orsay, displayed at the National Gallery of Australia.

The 25$ entry fee gets you to see works of Monet, Degas, Cezanne, van Gogh, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin and many other big names of impressionism, pointillism or symbolism.

When visiting such great exhibits it is better to go early in the morning.

We went there before the 10 a.m. opening time and saw 2 huge lines: one for those who booked tickets in advance and the other for those who didn't.

The better organised visitors, who had their tickets, just went through when the doors opened. The rest of us had to cue again, inside, at the box office.

Exhibitions at the National Gallery
Canberra, in the Past

Here are some examples:

• Paintings and sculptures by Degas, from various museums of the world – 2008 - 2009
• Degas' world, which included various prints of French masters - in 2009
• Turner to Monet – landscape masterpieces, in 2008
• Egyptian antiquities from the Louvre, in 2008
• Andy Warhol and the Oz, in 2007

So it is really worth visiting the capital of Australia. Culture is a great component of Canberra tourist attractions.

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