Access programs provide specialised arts programs that engage participants with Geelong Gallery exhibitions, events and its collection.

Please contact the Gallery to enquire about our guided–tours and specific access events and programs (including Art + Memory and Art + Connect) that can be tailored to meet your needs. All bookings required at least two weeks in advance.

For further information on all programs please contact Learning and Audience Engagement Manager Elishia Furet at elishia@geelonggallery.org.au.

Art + Connect @ Home is a resource designed to support healthcare providers and individual carers during the period of restricted movement due to the COVID–19 pandemic in facilitating art experiences for people with a disability or additional access needs.

Learn to facilitate a meaningful conversation and encourage close looking by exploring a key work from the Gallery’s permanent collection. This meaningful engagement provides an opportunity for someone in your care to reflect on their life experiences, express ideas, or simply appreciate something different.

Art + Connect @ Home kits can be emailed or posted to your preferred address, free of charge.

Contact us for further information, 03 5229 3645 or info@geelonggallery.org.au

Geelong Gallery’s Art + Memory program provides individuals living with early to mid-stage dementia a supportive environment to foster meaningful and intellectual engagement with life-long learning.

Art + Memory tours will encourage health and well-being through visual and intellectual stimulation generated by discussion based on works of art and placing value on the participants’ own personal connections.      

Please contact Geelong Gallery for further information regarding group bookings and tours for individuals and their carers or fill out the below booking enquiry form. Art + Memory sessions can also be booked as outreach and hosted in your aged care facility or community organisation.

A tailored Gallery experience for people of all ages with a disability or specific access needs. Facilitated group-based discussions, encourage looking and connecting ideas in works of art in the Gallery’s permanent collection—placing value on the participants’ own personal responses.

Duration: 40 minutes

For further information on all programs please contact Learning and Audience Engagement Manager Elishia Furet at elishia@geelonggallery.org.au.

Special exhibition-related Art + Connect workshops are also available. 

Art + Connect: outreach

Geelong Gallery will visit your community organisation, aged care facility, or nursing home to facilitate group-based discussions, looking at works of art from the Gallery’s permanent collection. The program promotes health and well-being through visual and intellectual stimulation for people who are affected by barriers of access to arts, culture and learning activities due to factors of mobility, economic disadvantage and social context, transportation, mental health and isolation.

For further information on all programs please contact Learning and Audience Engagement Manager Elishia Furet at elishia@geelonggallery.org.au.

Meet Orby—your Geelong Gallery tour guide.

Pick up an iPad from the Visitor Services desk and go on an augmented reality journey through the Gallery to learn more about the works of art on display.

Orby's user interface was designed with accessible features including subtitles that can be customised with a dyslexia-friendly font.

These free, self-guided tours, explore key works from the Gallery's collection including Eugene von Guerard’s View of Geelong 1856, Frederick McCubbin’s A bush burial 1890, Danila Vassilieff‘s Children playing, Collingwood c. 1937 and Christian Thompson’s Untitled (Banksia leaf) 2007.

Suitable for ages 5 to 10 years. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Orby
Created in partnership with Pillowfort Creative and Hanalei Studios
Supported by the Helen MacPherson Smith Trust, Creative Victoria and Harvey Norman

Access to Geelong Gallery is available at the entrance at 55 Little Malop Street Geelong.

Accessible free and ticketed disabled parking is available on Little Malop Street.

Wheelchair access toilets are located on the lower level of the Gallery, via the lift.

To view Geelong Gallery's floorplan click here. 

Please contact us for any further assistance on info@geelonggallery.org.au or 03 5229 3645.