Yarra Ranges Regional Museum

Visit Yarra Ranges Regional Museum for stimulating, informative and enjoyable experiences all year round.

Discover treasures from the Museum’s collection in the Connections Gallery, including objects of national and international significance. These items and their stories provide unique insight into the history of the Yarra Ranges and the region today.

Free entry, bookings are not required.

Yarra Ranges Regional Museum

35-37 Castella Street, Lilydale VIC 3140, Australia

03 9294 6511

yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Experience/Yarra-Ranges-Regional-Museum

Wed to Sun 12pm–4pm.

Exhibitions

Wonderscope

Clare James

13 Sep - 10 Dec

Preview

Unboxing the cultural impact of sneakers

Sneakers are a cultural phenomenon made up of paradoxes. Some see them as an accessible and inclusive force in fashion that serve as an outlet of self-expression for many; yet to others they are a symbol of out-of-control consumerism. Two Queensland exhibitions are embracing these dualities, though from contrasting angles: Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street at HOTA on the Gold Coast, and Torsion at Brisbane’s Metro Arts.

Barnaby Smith

Feature

Betty Muffler on ways of healing Country

For Betty Muffler art making and healing are indistinguishable. Evoking Country through the view of the eagle, she’s now showing in the NGV Triennial alongside a host of international names.

Maya Hodge

Preview

The spirit of Emily Kam Kngwarray’s Country

A comprehensive new survey at the National Gallery of Australia pays tribute to Emily Kam Kngwarray and the Country she loved.

Andrew Stephens

Opinion

When being an artist is a working title

What happens, asks artist Caitlin Shearer, when the starving artist trope becomes all too real, alienating artists from their practice, health and happiness?

Caitlin Aloisio Shearer

Preview

Amy Claire Mills reimagines the medical as medicinal

In a new exhibition at Outer Space, Amy Claire Mills offers a love letter to her disabled and neurodivergent communities by turning cold, hard medical spaces into places of safety and warmth.

Josephine Mead

Interview

Renee So on her process as “instinctive and personal”

Showing at UNSW Galleries, Renee So talks on her multidisciplinary practice, art history and museum collections—and how her work looks at “being a female, being Asian, being a mum, being an artist and living in the world”.

Yarra Ranges Regional Museum

Yarra Ranges Regional Museum

Exhibitions