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.

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.

Art + Memory is proudly supported by Epworth Medical Imaging.

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 is proudly supported by Epworth Medical Imaging.

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.

Art + Connect is proudly supported by Epworth Medical Imaging.

Explore Geelong Gallery Eugene von Guérard’s View of Geelong, 1856, and Frederick McCubbin’s A bush burial, 1890, with a free downloadable Auslan-interpreted and audio tour from Conexu Foundation. Available for you to download from the App store.

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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.