Heide Museum of Modern Art

Highly recommended! Worth to pay a visit if you haven't been!Love the indoor and outdoor settings, from art gallery, sculptures, landscape and architectural spaces.Outdoor and surrounding browsing is free, gallery is the only fee admission sction, but totally worth for its price as you would be able to visit the 3 different types of architectural buildings, from heritage to post modern then to contemporary.There is cafe, coffee kiosk opposite the shop available, but do check on their opening hours if you visit on the week day.Easy to spend a good quality of a few hours here. And best to be here when there is no rain so you could enjoy the outdoor a bit more.Facilities are good and clean, staff and volunteers are very friendly and helpful.A place where you would like to revisit.

A beautiful & fascinating Museum. So many indoor & outdoor exhibits & installations spread over acerage with lovely winding walks through gardens.I need to return to see more surprises.

My 3rd visit - to view Barbara Hepworth's current exhibition. This is small & you'd be done in under 40 mins incl. viewing a grainy doco that gives an insight into the landscape of Cornwall & surrounds that inspired her sculptures. The exhibits in the Heide II was the kind that you walk in & out again. As they say - art appreciation, especially modern art is in the eye of the beholder....You will be fitted with a wrist band once you get your tix or show your pre-purchased tix. Need to keep this on to gain entry into Heide II & Reed's cottage which has more artwork by the bohemian arty circle that Heide is reknowned for. It was just too hot on the recent Sun to walk up to Reed cottage after Heide I & II.The vast surrounds which melds with adjacent Banksia park looked dull & uninspiring with the same old unchanging outdoor sculptures bar a few newer ones. Yes -it is the hottest & driest time of the year but surely with the kind of patronage & funding Heide receives, upkeep & maintenance should be constant...What's with the unsealed, dusty & inadequate car parking area esp. for the crowds that turn up on a Sunday? You can drive round to the 2nd level park & if this small space is full - turn right - all the way down to Banksia Park parking areas & hike uphill to get to Heide's main entrance. With Heide, there's this smug complacency to do nothing much to increase patronage. Be like NGV, McClleland Sculpture Park, PT Leo Sculpture Park or the wineries that incorporate outdoor artwork & sculptures - evolve, upscale & maintain please!

Excellently-curated Barbara Hepworth exhibition and complementary galleries (was visiting from the UK where I am a Member of The Hepworth gallery in Wakefield). Plus small sculpture park for picnic or stroll, and good café.

amazing gallery and grounds to explore and grab a food or coffee. staff are all lovely and knowledgeable, rich history to the heide!

Always excellent. One of Melbourne's most accessible and welcoming galleries. Outstanding artwork and a beautiful art space.

Cool for a quick walk and gander at the sights by yourself or with a friend but as a family or larger group there are definitely more cost effective places to visit. If you’ve seen everything in melb then check it out but otherwise there are better (and cheaper) art spots around. This’ll occupy you for maybe an hour or hour and a half but it isn’t an all day activity. Overall interesting if not a little underwhelming.

It is best to come back when there are themed exhibitions, otherwise there will be less things to see. But I have to admit, the buildings are beautiful~

And verily, it came to be that Mary came across an inn but the inn was closed. A great wailing and gnashing of teeth fell upon the chosen when unto them a miracle was granted... and lo, the heavens ceased to weep, and the path to redemption appeared, and the café opened. An Easter miracle of biblical proportions.Awesome museum. Striking, thought provoking, inspirational even.