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NGV ranks top in Australian galleries in global attendance

NGV is ranked in the top 30 art museums internationally based on visitor figures, nearly 700,000 above other Aus galleries.

7 Apr 2014

Gina Fairley

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Visual Arts

Water Wall, NGV International

When the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) announced record attendances for its Melbourne Now exhibition we all noticed. We did not expect that the global art world would also notice, the exhibition clearly bolstering the gallery’s attendance figures for the past year, bumping it into the top thirty art museums ranked globally on visitor attendance.

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Gina Fairley

Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina