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.
Exhibitions
Stephen Procter: Lines Through Light
26 January – 8 June 2008
Gallery 2/3
This exhibition examines Stephen Procter’s work from the 1970s to 2001. Encompassing Procter’s work in glass and his substantial graphic and painted oeuvre, the exhibition explores the artist’s journey through his immediate environment and the relationship of the individual to that landscape.
Neil Roberts: Cryonic Quintet
Ongoing
Gallery 4
Cryonic quintet 1994 is a marvellous example of Neil Roberts’s assemblage art. Five elegant and eccentric towers of clear glass, constructed from commercially produced and junk shop-sourced dishes and vessels, sit atop five painted white stools, the whole on a platform resting on seven upturned pub glasses
CMAG Collection Series: Ongoing
Gallery 4, Gallery 5, Gallery 3 Showcase
The Canberra Museum and Gallery celebrates it 10th birthday in 2008 with a series of exhibitions featuring works of art and social history objects from the permanent collection highlighting Canberra’s diverse artistic practice and unique history.
CMAG Collection Series: Social History
Gallery 5
An exhibition of historical objects from the CMAG Social History Collection that define the important people, places and events in our regions past. Acknowledging these objects original purpose. this exhibition explores our need to keep things as evidence of experience.
Canberra Model Shipwrights Society 20th Anniversary Exhibition
February 1 March – 25 May 2008
Open Collection Gallery
An exhibition to enthral land lovers and seafarers of all ages. The Canberra Model Shipwrights Society celebrates its 20th anniversary by highlighting the extraordinary workmanship, research and dedication that goes into creating historically accurate scale model ships and boats.
Pursing Up: Rae Harvey’s Handbag Collection
31 May - 28 September 2008
Open Collection Gallery
Rae Harvey shows her vintage handbag collection as part of the Cabinets of Curiosities series.
Jan Brown
21 June – October 19 2008
Gallery 2/3
An exhibition featuring Jan Brown’s sculpture and works on paper, revealing her importance in Canberra’s cultural history as an artist, teacher and mentor.
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