Art Gallery – the main cultural institution in the city of Geelong. Today the gallery holds about 5 thousand works of art. The building the gallery is part of the Cultural District of Geelong with the adjacent Center for the performing arts, the courthouse, City Library and heritage centre.

In 1895 members of the League of Progress Geelong was sent to the state government petition to establish the town Art Gallery. Their request was granted in may of 1900, when the Association of Art Galleries has received permission to use the three walls of the Town Hall for hanging paintings. So began the life of the gallery. Among the first additions to the collection was a painting of Frederick Maccabia 1890-the year "the Grave in the Bush", bought for $210. Soon, the gallery moved to the building of the Free Library on Moorabool street.

The current building of the Art Gallery was officially opened in 1915. It is next to Johnstone Park between City Hall and former fire station (now Regional Library). Originally the building housed a covered gallery and the vestibule, facing the Park, and Gallery of Hitchcock. In 1928 opened the Gallery Henry Douglas, and in 1937 Richardson Gallery. Since opening in 1938 Galleries Macphillamy the main entrance to the building moved to the street little Malop street.

Today in the collection of the Art Gallery is an outstanding collection of Australian and European art of the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition to paintings and watercolors, here you can see English porcelain of the 18th and 19th centuries, art pottery, silverware colonial period, the work of contemporary Australian artists, prints, sculpture and ceramics. Of particular interest is the collection of paintings, which depict the Geelong mid 19th century.