A vibrant place in the heart of the city, Canberra Museum and Gallery celebrates the region's social history and visual arts with dynamic exhibitions and unique community programs and events.

Housing a permanent collection, Reflecting Canberra, and a variety of local, national and international exhibitions, CMAG provides a refreshing insight to the integration of social history and the visual arts.

Exhibition Opening

OCEAN TO OUTBACK: Australian landscape
painting 1850-1950

Thursday 12 February 2009

National Gallery of Australia Director Ron Radford AM, launched the exhibition Ocean To Outback to an array of media and staff at CMAG Thursday 12 February.

The exhibition documents the most dynamic century of landscape painting from the colonial
1850s to the immediate period following World War II. Over this century, landscape painting was the “great” subject of Australian art, a theme that reflected the changing nature of a nation’s identity. Landscape subjects also became popular with the general public as Australians began to visit their own museums and galleries to see images of their country.