Past Events
Open Weekend 2020
CANCELLED
21 - 22 March 2020
Summer Sketching: Robert Klippel
11am–3pm
2 February 2020
Robert Klippel: Drop-In Children’s Workshop
BOOKED OUT
11.30am–1pm
17 January 2020
Assemblage at Twilight: Sculpture Workshop
BOOKED OUT
5.30-7.30pm
16 January 2020
Summer Sketching: Robert Klippel
11am–3pm
5 January 2020
Archibald Sundowner: Benjamin Aitken and Fiona Lowry
BOOKED OUT
5.30–7pm
19 October 2019
Archibald Sundowner: Natasha Bieniek and Mathew Lynn
5.30–7pm
5 October 2019
Archibald Prize 2019: Drop-In Children’s Workshop
BOOKED OUT
11.30am–1pm
2 October 2019
Archibald Sundowner: Luke Cornish and Kirpy
5.30–7pm
21 September 2019
Guided Tours – The Tangible Trace
31 August - 1 September 2019
VAULT Magazine Issue 27 Launch | Trace and Legacy in the Art World
2-4pm
28 July 2019
The Tangible Trace – Artist Talks
1-2pm
9 June 2019
Conversations on Country
BOOKED OUT
3 - 5pm
27 April 2019
Open Weekend 2019
11am-5pm
30 - 31 March 2019
The Makers Trail
30 - 31 March 2019
Meet the Artist: Patricia Piccinini
BOOKED OUT
6 - 7.30pm
2 March 2019
TarraWarra Festival 2019
23 - 24 February 2019
Keynote Lecture by Patricia Piccinini
BOOKED OUT
3.30 - 5pm
2 February 2019
Summer Sketching Series – Yarra Valley Vistas
11am-3pm
27 January 2019
Summer Sketching Series – Yarra Valley Vistas
11am-3pm
20 January 2019
Summer Sketching Series – Yarra Valley Vistas
11am-3pm
13 January 2019
Summer Sketching Series – Sketch with Skywhale
11am-3pm
6 January 2019
Guided Tours – Patricia Piccinini & Joy Hester: Through love …
24 November 2018 - 11 March 2019
Will to Form: Activated
Presented in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival
11am-4pm
20 October 2018
Drop-By Children’s Workshop with Hiromi Tango
11am-5pm
6 October 2018
TarraWarra Biennial 2018: Opening Weekend
11am-5pm
4 - 5 August 2018
Children’s Workshop: Living Sculptures and Wild Paintbrushes
4 July 2018
Odd Man Out
2 - 4pm
2 June 2018
Music in the Museum with Rosie Westbrook
2pm - 4pm
29 April 2018
Open Weekend – Free Museum entry
11 - 5pm
17 - 18 March 2018
Hilaire Mais Exhibition Tour with Co-Curator Blair French
3pm
24 February 2018
In Conversation with Rosemary Laing
3pm - 4.30pm
3 February 2018
Children’s Workshop – Rosemary Laing Exhibition
11.30am - 1pm
16 January 2018
Archives in Motion
28 October 2017
Cao Fei ‘La Town’ – Film screening at ACMI
6:30pm
2 October 2017
Discovering Dobell – keynote lecture by Christopher Heathcote
2 - 3pm
22 July 2017
Discovering Dobell – keynote lecture by Christopher Heathcote
CHILDREN’S WORKSHOPS
11.30am and 2pm
5 July 2017
Rosie Westbrook Plays at TarraWarra Museum of Art
2-4pm
7 May 2017
Louise Hearman – Meet the Artist
2 - 3pm
18 March 2017
Join us for a panel discussion with Louise Hearman & Anna Davis, chaired by Fiona Gruber
TarraWarra Festival
Featuring the Australian Chamber Orchestra
25 - 26 February 2017
Summer Season – Open 7 days
26 January 2017
The Sculpture of Bronwyn Oliver: Children’s workshop
11:30am & 2pm
11 January 2017
Open Weekend
11am - 5pm
10 - 11 December 2016
The Sculpture of Bronwyn Oliver – Public Program
2pm
26 November 2016
TarraWarra Biennial 2016: Endless Circulation Special Lecture Series
29 October 2016
TarraWarra Biennial 2016: Children’s workshops
Wed 21 Sep 11.30am & 2pm & Wed 28 Sep - 2pm
28 September 2016
Get creative these school holidays with a choice of children's workshops inspired by the TarraWarra Biennial 2016: Endless Circulation exhibition.
TarraWarra Biennial 2016: Endless Circulation Public Programs
19 - 20 August 2016
Autotune Everything: Art and the Sonic – Cosmic – Politic
6pm
18 - 20 August 2016
Panorama (Part Two) – Children’s workshop
11.30am
30 June 2016
Rosie Westbrook plays at TarraWarra Museum of Art
2-4pm
12 June 2016
Public Forum: Points of View
2pm
7 May 2016
Panorama Children’s Workshop
11.30am & 2pm
31 March 2016
TarraWarra Festival
Featuring the Australian Chamber Orchestra
19 - 20 March 2016
Featuring the Australian Chamber Orchestra
Public forum: The work of Howard Arkley
2pm - 3.30pm
6 February 2016
Rosie Westbrook plays at TarraWarra Museum of Art
2pm - 4pm
17 January 2016
Hear Rosie create live music that is inspired by and responds to various works in the Arkley exhibition.
Children’s workshop with Clare James
14 January 2016
TarraWarra Museum of Art Open Weekend
12 - 13 December 2015
Time out of Time
12noon - 6.30pm
24 October 2015
A unique afternoon of sound art, performances and talks
Untitled (Human Mask) screening at ACMI
Presented by TarraWarra Museum of Art in association with ACMI
5.30pm
19 October 2015
Children’s workshop – make your own insect & Antarctica sculptures
11am - 1pm and 2pm - 4pm
23 September 2015
Untitled (Human Mask) screening at ACMI
6.15pm - 7.15pm
2 September 2015
Rosie Westbrook plays at TarraWarra Museum of Art
2pm - 4pm
19 July 2015
Keynote Address by Edmund Capon AM, OBE
2pm
18 July 2015
Children’s workshop – Create your own modernist self portrait
11am - 1pm
1 July 2015
Phase Change Forum
12noon - 5pm
31 May 2015
Participants and invited speakers from the fields of sustainable design, economics and Indigenous knowledge will debate issues highlighted by the project.
Book launch
4pm
19 April 2015
Join us at the Museum as artist Lindy Lee officially launches the book An-Li: A Chinese Ghost Tale
Children’s workshop
2pm
8 April 2015
Create a sculpture inspired by Kate Beynon's exhibition
Guided tour with Hetti Perkins
3pm
29 March 2015
TarraWarra Festival: Featuring the Australian Chamber Orchestra
7 - 8 March 2015
Opening hours Labour Day Long weekend
7 - 9 March 2015
Keynote lecture by Terence Maloon
4:00pm - 5:00pm
8 February 2015
‘Tuckson, Fairweather and the Crisis of the Easel Picture’
Drawing Performance
6 - 8 February 2015
Shadow on Long Gully, Frost Drawing for TarraWarra
Exploring drawing in new ways
School Holiday Childrens Workshop
11am
15 January 2015
Artist Clare James will lead an exploration of new ways of drawing...
Summer season & late night Fridays
Extended summer hours
9 - 26 January 2015
The Museum will open 7 days from Boxing Day to Australia Day.
Curator’s guided tour
3:00pm
30 November 2014
Join Steven Alderton for an informative and insightful guided tour of the exhibition.
Open Melbourne Cup Weekend
1 - 4 November 2014
Melbourne Festival: Whisper in My Mask
A DAY IN THE VALLEY
11:00am - 6:00pm
19 October 2014
Hurry! Tickets selling fast! Book now!
Masks within Masks
School Holiday Childrens Workshops
11:00am - 1:00pm or 2:00pm - 4:00pm
2 October 2014
Artist Sarah Metzner will begin with a group discussion of selected works...
Have you heard of the Great Moorool?
TOWN MEETING
2 September 2014
Free event where a diverse panel will explore and celebrate histories, knowledge and stories of water in the Yarra Valley and beyond!
Have your Dough Portrait taken
with artist Søren Dahlgaard
11:00am - 3:00pm
1 June 2014
Søren Dahlgaard will take a new series of his well-known Dough Portraits at the museum on Sunday 1 June
Breakfast with Danie Mellor
10 May 2014
The Singular Figure
A Children’s workshop inspired by the works in Solitaire
10 April 2014
TarraWarra Festival featuring ACO
5 - 6 April 2014
Solitaire: Artists in Conversation
16 March 2014
Future Memorials and Healesville Sanctuary joint tour
12 January 2014
Summer Season
26 December 2013 - 27 January 2014
Children’s workshop – Sarah’s Sculpture Session
8 December 2013
Discounted entry to the Healesville Sanctuary
with your Museum admission
7 December 2013 - 9 February 2014
10 Year Anniversary celebrations
7 - 8 December 2013
Future Memorials public program
17 November 2013
Rethinking Russell Drysdale – Lecture by Dr Christopher Heathcote
10 November 2013
Animate / Inanimate TWMA Healesville Sanctuary Combined Tour
6 November 2013
Animated Animal Self Portraits
Children's workshop
3 October 2013
Animate / Inanimate Symposium
1 September 2013
Brick donation drive
14 July - 10 September 2013
Animal Mask workshop
School holiday program
4 July 2013
Vibrant Matter: Artists in Conversation
2 June 2013
TarraWarra Festival featuring the Australian Chamber Orchestra
17 May 2013
TarraWarra Festival featuring ACO
17 - 19 May 2013
‘Terrain Vague’ in the work of Jeffrey Smart
Lessons for urban design - Lecture by Leon van Schaik
10 March 2013
Jeffrey Smart: A voyage around stillness
Lecture by Barry Pearce
10 February 2013
Urban Landscapes
A Children's Workshop inspired by the paintings of Jeffrey Smart
24 January 2013
Master of Stillness
Jeffrey Smart paintings
21 December 2012 - 1 April 2013
TarraWarra Biennial 2012: Sonic Spheres Performances
2 December 2012
The Landscape Awry – Symposium
13 - 14 October 2012
School holiday workshop with Dylan Martorell
5 October 2012
Sonic Spheres at the Northcote Social Club
3 October 2012
School holiday workshop with Dylan Martorell
28 September 2012
TarraWarra Biennial 2012 Sonic Spheres opening weekend performances
4 August 2012
A Perfect Winter’s Eve
6 July 2012
School Holiday Program
31 March - 15 April 2012
TarraWarra Festival – featuring the ACO
3 - 4 March 2012
TarraWarra Festival featuring Australian Chamber Orchestra
2 March 2012
William Delafield Cook
A conversation
22 October 2011
Another Perfect Winter’s Eve – Booked Out
29 July 2011
Breakfast with Ben Quilty
2 July 2011
2011 Archibald Prize
2 - 31 July 2011
A conversation between artist and weaver
16 April 2011
TarraWarra Museum of Art Music Festival – Australian Chamber Orchestra
16 - 17 April 2011
Kathie Sutherland Lecture
5 March 2011