Geelong Art Gallery

The Geelong Art Gallery, currently called Geelong Gallery, is a first-rate regional gallery in the city of Geelong in Victoria, Australia. The gallery has approximately 4,000 works of artwork in its collection. The gallery paperwork Geelong's Arts Precinct with the adjacent Geelong Performing Arts Centre, Geelong Heritage Centre, Geelong Courthouse centre, and the Geelong Library. An art gallery for Geelong turned into first petitioned for in 1895 by way of individuals of the Geelong Progress League.

In May 1900 permission changed into given for the Geelong Art Gallery Association to use 3 partitions inside the Geelong Town Hall to hang art work on. Among the first acquisitions made became Frederick McCubbin's 1890 A bush burial which value 100 guineas at the time. The gallery become soon moved to the Free Library Building in Moorabool Street. On 31 May 1900, the formal beginning of the Geelong Art Gallery passed off on the city hall. Mr. S. Austin, M.L.C. Presided and the mayor Alderman Carr made a speech formally affirming it open to the general public.