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The gallery was privately owned until financial insecurity led to the building and collection being handed over to the Ballarat City Council in 1977. In 2008, the gallery adopted its current name and became a free-entry venue. Louise Tegart is the gallery's current director. The Art Gallery of Ballarat is a tourist attraction for Ballarat.
Ballarat Heritage Weekend is a community cultural festival held annually in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Run since 2006 by the City of Ballarat, it is a major tourist attraction. The festival follows a heritage theme drawing on Ballarat's reputation as a historic Australian city. Many of the events are free.
Held every two years, the Ballarat International Foto Biennale is a 60-day festival in Ballarat in regional Victoria, Australia. [ 2 ] that delivers a program of two major photographic exhibition streams: a curated Core Program showcasing significant domestic and international [ 3 ] artists and an Open Program that fosters the development of ...
Exhibit in Overtown highlights banned books with installations created by 10 different artists. ... We want to keep the kids reading.” ... Tickets: Free. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement.
The Jim Irsay Collection is a collection of musical instruments, American history artifacts, and popular culture items collected by Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay.The collection is heavily focused on guitars associated with rock music, but also contains items such as historic manuscripts, film artifacts, and sports memorabilia.
The Wendouree Centre for the Performing Arts (WCPA) is a performing arts centre in Wendouree, a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria. The WCPA was completed mid-2006 and replaced the Timkin Hall. It was built at an estimated cost of $8 million. The main auditorium can seat 857 people.
Sovereign Hill is an open-air museum in Golden Point, a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Sovereign Hill depicts Ballarat's first ten years after the discovery of gold there in 1851 and has become a nationally acclaimed tourist attraction. [1] It is one of Victoria's most popular attractions and Ballarat's most famous. [2]
The National Guitar Museum (NGM) is a museum dedicated to the guitar's history, evolution, and cultural impact; and to promoting and preserving the guitar's legacy. The NGM addresses the history of the guitar as it has evolved from ancient stringed instruments to the wide variety of instruments created over the past 200 years.