Museums - Aboriginal Art Museum

This museum opened in 2001 and is the first in Europe devoted exclusively to the art of the Australian Aborigines. It houses an important collection of contemporary works, which are the most recent artistic expressions of a civilization that is thousands of years old and even today remains poorly understood in many respects. The museum’s material, drawn from the cultural centers of the Central Desert, Arnhem Land, and the Melville Islands, clearly demonstrates the creative wealth of this people with a 60,000-year history and testifies to the diversity of traditional and modern arts, both of which are rooted in the ancestral myths of the Dream Time.
The museum presents many temporary exhibitions in which it shows not only its own holdings, but also works from private collections and partner museums. It also features didactic displays for adults and children.