Suvendu Das

Review of National Gallery of Australia

The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), located i...

The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), located in Canberra, is the Commonwealth of Australia's national cultural institution for the visual arts and is a portfolio agency within the Department of Communications and the Arts.

The functions of the NGA are prescribed in its enabling legislation, the National Gallery Act 1975, which requires the NGA to:

Develop and maintain a national collection of works of art
exhibit, or make available for exhibition by others, works of art from the national collection or works of art that are in the possession of the Gallery, and use every endeavor to make the most advantageous use of the national collection in the national interest.
The NGA receives funding from the Commonwealth Government and actively seeks, and relies upon, financial and in-kind support from private and corporate sources.

The National Gallery of Australia's collections include more than 160,000 works of art across four main areas: Australian art, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art, Asian art and European and American art

Works in the Gallery are part of Australia's national collection. They belong to the people of Australia and are preserved and presented for their enjoyment and education. It is the Gallery's intention to make the collection as widely appreciated as possible both in Australia and overseas.