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The Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney Phone: +61 2 92251701About
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney (Walk from Martin Place 400m directly east across The Domain. Bus 411 goes QVB to Art Gallery, Sydney Explorer bus route, stop 6, nearest train stations are St James and Martin Place. Both are 10 min walk), â Information desk: +61 2 92251744, 1800-NSW-ART (artmail@ag.nsw.gov.au, fax: +61 2 92251701), [13]. Daily 10AM -5PM, Wednesday until 9PM. The Art Gallery of New South Wales is the leading museum of art in New South Wales and Sydney, and one of Australia's foremost cultural institutions. It holds significant collections of Australian art, and presents nearly forty exhibitions annually. British Victorian art, along with smaller holdings of Dutch, French and Italian painters of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, and a collection of modern British masters, European modernists and European classical art. The collection includes work by Reubens, Piccasso, Van Gogh and many others. There is also an impressive collection of Asian, South East Asian, Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. The gallery also has an extensive collection of contemporary art. Not all of the collection holdings are on exhibition at any one time and the gallery occasionally rotates significant works on exhibition. The building itself is a much photogaphed sandstone structure with a large formal entrance. There is a popular cafe inside the gallery, with views over Wooloomooloo : lat=-33.8688241323, lon=151.21707602 Free admission with charges to some 'feature' exhibitions.
