TarraWarra Museum of Art Information

Established in 2003, TarraWarra Museum of Art is a public gallery situated in the Yarra Valley, Victoria. Through a program of adventurous and inventive Australian and international art exhibitions, the Museum actively engages with art, place and ideas, presenting unexpected links between contemporary art and modernism within global, national and Indigenous contexts. TarraWarra Museum of Art captures the vision of the Museum’s founders, philanthropists Eva Besen AO and Marc Besen AC, passionate collectors of Australian art from the 1950s to the present day. Not only did they gift the building that houses the Museum, they also donated a significant proportion of their collection for the enjoyment of all visitors from Australia and abroad. TarraWarra Museum of Art recognises and values First Nations peoples as the first artists and custodians of the lands and waters upon which the Museum stands, and proudly commissions works which explore the significant Indigenous culture of the Yarra Valley.