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Australian gallery among world’s most visited

Steadily increasing visitor numbers, peaking last year at 2.6 million, have resulted in an appearance in the global Top 20 list.

18 Apr 2017 12:00

Richard Watts

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Brook Andrew, dhalaay yuulayn (passionate skin) (2004). Enamel paint on anodised aluminium and wood, neon, 125.0 x 170.0 cm. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased with funds from the Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2005. © Brook Andrew, courtesy Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne.

The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) was the 19^th most popular gallery in the world in 2016 according to the latest global survey of art museum attendance conducted by the UK’s The Art Newspaper.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts