It began in 1944 with wooden boxes on a freight train and hessian-covered screens in the local Scout Hall.
Today, the Gallery’s touring exhibition program continues. Through partnership and collaboration with our friends and colleagues in regional galleries and museums, the program strives to connect audiences across NSW with great art and exhibitions.
Here are our tips learned over the last seven decades!
The Travelling Art Exhibition truck being loaded outside the Art Gallery of NSW, c1971. Photo: Australian News and Information Bureau. National Art Archive | Art Gallery of NSW
Have wheels, will exhibit!
One hundred and fifty years of painting in Australia, Wagga Wagga, 1944. Photo by Ernest Tooley. National Art Archive | Art Gallery of NSW
No walls? No problem.
Art Gallery of NSW Travelling Art Exhibition, Newcastle, 1968. National Art Archive | Art Gallery of NSW
School groups always welcome.
Aspects of Australian art, Bega, 1977. National Art Archive | Art Gallery of NSW
Enjoyed by older generations.
Aspects of Australian art, Bega, 1977. National Art Archive | Art Gallery of NSW
And by the young.
Art Gallery of NSW Travelling Art Exhibition truck outside Walgett, 1977. National Art Archive | Art Gallery of NSW
No road too bumpy, no location too remote.
Contrasts, the first Onsight travelling exhibition, Penrith, Western Sydney, 1980. National Art Archive | Art Gallery of NSW
You can even do your grocery shopping!