Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series

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The Melbourne Winter Masterpieces is an annual series of major exhibitions held over 100 days in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [1] Exhibits are sourced from galleries and institutions from around the world, and exhibited at Melbourne Museum, National Gallery of Victoria and Australian Centre for the Moving Image. The annual series held during the Melbourne Winter – between June and October. [1]

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The objectives of the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series are to: [1]

The Melbourne Winter Masterpieces have been credited with attracting 5 million visitors to Melbourne, and for injecting $400 million into the Victorian state economy. [2]

The Melbourne Winter Masterpiece exhibition for 2025 will be French Impressionism: From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, at the National Gallery of Victoria from 6 June to 5 October 2025. [3] [4] [5]

Exhibitions

Previous exhibition held from 2004, include: [1]

Melbourne Museum

Australian Centre for the Moving Image

Attendances

Melbourne Winter Masterpieces Exhibitions by attendance [9] [10]
YearExhibitionAttendanceExhibitor
2024Pharaoh336,000 National Gallery of Victoria
2023 Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi 157,317 National Gallery of Victoria
2022The Picasso Century314,238 National Gallery of Victoria
2019Terracotta Warriors & Cai Guo-Qiang377,105 National Gallery of Victoria
2018Wonderland179,000 Australian Centre for the Moving Image
2018 MoMA: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art404,034 [11] National Gallery of Victoria
2017Van Gogh and the Seasons462,262 [12] National Gallery of Victoria
2016Degas: A New Vision197,500 National Gallery of Victoria
2015Masterpieces from the Hermitage172,000 National Gallery of Victoria
2015David Bowie Is199,000 Australian Centre for the Moving Image
2014Italian Masterpieces from Spain's Royal Court: Museo del Prado153,000 National Gallery of Victoria
2014DreamWorks Animation220,000 Australian Centre for the Moving Image
2013Monet's Garden343,000 National Gallery of Victoria
2013Hollywood Costumes204,000 Australian Centre for the Moving Image
2012Game Masters103,000 Australian Centre for the Moving Image
2012Napoleon: Revolution to Empire189,000 National Gallery of Victoria
2011Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs796,000 Melbourne Museum
2011Vienna: Art and Design172,000 National Gallery of Victoria
2010European Masters: Stadel Collection 19th – 20th Centuries200,000 National Gallery of Victoria
2010Tim Burton: The Exhibition276,000 Australian Centre for the Moving Image
2009A Day in Pompeii333,000 Melbourne Museum
2009Salvador Dali: Liquid Desire333,000 National Gallery of Victoria
2008Art Deco 1910–1939241,000 National Gallery of Victoria
2007Guggenheim Collection 1940's to Now180,000 National Gallery of Victoria
2007Pixar: 20 Years of Animation147,000 Australian Centre for the Moving Image
2006Picasso: Love & War 1935 -1945224,000 National Gallery of Victoria
2005Dutch Masters from the Rijksmuseum219,000 National Gallery of Victoria
2004The Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay371,000 National Gallery of Victoria
Total6,317,796

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Creative Victoria – Melbourne Winter Masterpieces
  2. Lambert, Catherine. "National Gallery of Victoria reveals Vincent van Gogh exhibition for 2017 winter masterpieces". Herald Sun. News Corporation. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  3. "100+ masterpieces of French Impressionism return to Melbourne in 2025". Australian Arts Review. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  4. Ward, Sarah; Curran, Libby. "Coming Soon: The NGV's Huge French Impressionism Exhibition Is Returning with 100-Plus Iconic Paintings". Concrete Playground. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  5. Landy, Samantha. "French Impressionism coming back to NGV for Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2025". News Corp. Herald Sun. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  6. National Gallery of Victoria – European Masters: Städel Museum, 19th–20th Century Archived 2010-06-16 at the Wayback Machine
  7. "Australian Centre for the Moving Image – Pixar: 20 Years of Animation". Archived from the original on 2 March 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
  8. Australian Centre for the Moving Image – Tim Burton: The Exhibition
  9. "Melbourne Winter Masterpieces". Creative Victoria. Government of Victoria. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  10. Bailey, Michael. "NGV's 'Kusama' to become biggest-selling art show". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  11. "More than 400,000 visit MoMA at NGV" (PDF). National Gallery of Victoria. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  12. "Record-Busting Van Gogh Draws Over 110,000 Tourists To Victoria" . Retrieved 1 August 2017.