exhibitions

HOT: Melt Chocolate Festival preview, Immigration Museum, 400 Flinders St, Melbourne

May 16, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

If you want to learn about, eat and share chocolate then make sure you don’t miss Melt: Chocolate Festival on next Sunday 26 May 11am – 4pm at the Immigration Museum. At Melt: Chocolate Festival, you will get to meet members of Victoria’s chocolate-loving Portuguese-speaking, Belgian, and Mexican communities to explore the role of chocolate in cuisine, [...]

HOT: Persimmon, Ground Level NGV International, 180 St Kilda Rd, Southbank

May 13, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

I have to admit that I am a bit skeptical when it comes to gallery or concert hall restaurants. I feel that when a building’s main purpose is not to be a restaurant then there’s no real incentive to serve good food. Add to that the fact that they are catering for a captive audience of hungry [...]

HOT: Afghanistan Pop Up cafe, Melbourne Museum, Nicholson St, Carlton

May 8, 2013 ⋅ 3 comments

Every year Melbourne Museum hosts a special winter international exhibition and this year’s showcase Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures is from the National Museum of Kabul. If you’re visiting the exhibition (or even if you’re not) you may not be aware that just outside the entrance is a pop up cafe that serves tastes of the region. [...]

HOT: Hollywood Costume, ACMI, Federation Square

April 26, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

If you like fashion, design, movies or movie stars, do not miss ACMI’s Winter Masterpiece exhibition this year, Hollywood Costume which explores the role costume design plays in cinema. It comes to Melbourne via the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and it’s one of the best curated exhibitions I’ve visited recently. It doesn’t just consist of a [...]

Melbourne Museum – Smartbar Giveaway

April 23, 2013 ⋅ 18 comments

Melbourne Museum is opening up next Thursday night for its popular adults-only Smartbar, with a theme for this event being Retro Futurism. Along with the museum’s experts you can explore vintage machines, including CSIRAC the only intact first-generation computer surviving in the world, retro technologies, the future of 3D printing technology and the origins of electronic music. Food [...]

HOT: Lisa Tomasetti “Behind the Scenes: The Australian Ballet on the International Stage”, James Makin Gallery, 67 Cambridge St, Collingwood

March 24, 2013 ⋅ One comment

Dancers have provided inspiration for artists for centuries. I think it’s a dancer’s constant search for the perfect line and form and the potential expressiveness and passion of the human body which fascinates photographers, painters and sculptors. Sydney based artist Lisa Tomasetti currently has a free exhibition of photographs she took for the Australian Ballet [...]

HOT: Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, Carlton Gardens & Royal Exhibition Building, 9 Nicholson St, Carlton

March 23, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

Join the busloads of grannies this weekend and check out the 18th Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, which has taken over Carlton Gardens until Sunday 24 March. I have a habit of regularly killing potted herbs (the extent of my gardening) and I enjoyed wondering around the beautiful displays and exhibits of Australia’s biggest flower [...]

HOT: Kids Under Cover’s 2013 Cubby House Challenge, Melbourne International & Flower Show, Carlton Gardens, Carlton

March 21, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

I think playing in cubby houses is a game universally enjoyed by children and even some adults! Most grown-ups still retain fun memories of building cubby houses under dining tables, in trees and on bunk beds – but the ones I saw at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show are in a whole other league! Five [...]

Melbourne Museum Smartbar Giveaway

July 13, 2012 ⋅ 32 comments

The Melbourne Museum is running Smartbar again, opening the museum up at night for an adults-only event. The theme this time is Mind and Body and it promises to be an interesting and fun night. There will be psych experiments, lectures on life-drawing classes plus food and drink for purchase and Andrew McClelland DJing the [...]

HOT: Long Weekend in Bendigo (Part 1) – What to do

June 11, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

Hope you all had a fun and restful long weekend! Did you go anywhere interesting? I was drawn by the rare opportunity to visit the Grace Kelly: Style Icon Exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery so we headed to Bendigo for a short break. I’ve only been to Bendigo once before (in fact, for last year’s [...]

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