Exhibitions and Curated Stories

Arts Centre Melbourne presents a year-round program of exhibitions and displays that showcase the breadth and depth of the Australian Performing Arts Collection, and its main collecting areas of circus, dance, music, opera and theatre.

These carefully curated exhibitions and displays tell many fascinating stories of Australia’s rich and varied performing arts history, and also complement current productions being staged in Arts Centre Melbourne’s venues.

Find out more about our new space that will give visitors a behind the scenes look at the work of preserving items from the Australian Performing Arts Collection, with some special work-in-progress items on display. The space was recently revealed and will be open to the public in June 2023.