This exhibition celebrated the unveiling of the new museum premises, designed by Kerstin Thompson Architects. Situated at the heart of the University’s Art and Design precinct in Caulfield, MUMA’s new facilities provide increased gallery space and capacity for the Museum to present an expanded program of exhibitions, commissions, projects, education and public programs, alongside changing exhibitions from the Monash University Collection.

The inaugural exhibition Change explored the breadth and depth of the Monash University Collection, reflecting on the changing forms and developments in contemporary art practice from the 1960s to the present, from late modernism to our contemporary situation. Inspired by—and drawing its title from—a neon work by the late Blair Trethowan, the exhibition signalled the potential for change and transformation that MUMA’s new situation presented.

MUMA’s re-launch coincided with the unveiling of Callum Morton’s Silverscreen, The Marc and Eva Besen Commission, a major, architecturally integrated public sculpture. Other key features of the Museum include the Ian Potter Sculpture Court, the Merlin Myer Gallery and the Helen Macpherson Smith Education Space, and we are especially grateful to our principal philanthropic partners.

Public Programs:
MUMA Housewarming
6 November 2010

^{Image: Change, installation view: Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2010. Photo: Christian Capurro}