Canberra Exhibitions

Canberra exhibitions are a strong attraction, when visiting the capital of Australia. And there are plenty of them.

Whether you go to the National Gallery of Australia, or National Portrait Gallery, or National Museum of Australia , 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

The Masterpieces from Paris that was on at the beginning of 2010, boosted Canberra tourism in the summer. It is considered to have been the greatest collection of French art visiting Australia.

This was a collection on loan from the Musee d'Orsay, displayed at the National Gallery Canberra.

It included 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

The National Gallery of Australia has a commitment to display exhibitions that pull together some of the most famous international artists. 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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