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GOMA

During its relatively short existence GOMA has quickly established itself as the proverbial jewel in Brisbane’s visual arts crown.

During its relatively short existence GOMA has quickly established itself as the proverbial jewel in Brisbane’s visual arts crown.

Brisbane’s arts and cultural scene is thriving, with world class theatre, art galleries, dance and music, film and theatre as well as a host of museums and excellent libraries. Highlights are GOMA, Australia’s leading modern art gallery, the Queensland Ballet directed by Li Cunxin (Mao’s Last Dancer), Queensland Theatre and Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Brisbane’s unique indie arts centre the Brisbane Powerhouse. Brisbane also hosts first class festivals such as the annual 3 week Brisbane Festival and Brisbane International Film Festival and Brisbane Writers Festival.

GOMA

GOMA

During its relatively short existence has quickly established itself as the proverbial jewel in Brisbane’s visual arts crown.

Edwina Corlette Gallery New Farm

Edwina Corlette Gallery

This gallery is one of Brisbane’s leading art spaces, showcasing the best of contemporary Australian art

AMA House in Kelvin Grove

This unusual granite clad house with domed turret, hidden from the street, sits perched on one of the highest ridges in Kelvin Grove.

Archerfield Airport art deco main terminal building

Archerfield Airport

Brisbane’s second airport, located 11km south of the CBD and once the home of QANTAS, Ansett and TAA, has a history dating back to 1855.

Avalon house on Brunswick St New Farm

One of the first block of flats to be built in Brisbane (in 1929), the start of a trend that saw New Farm’s Victorian villas replaced with art deco and Spanish Mission flats

Brisbane Arcade, Brisbane CBD, historic buildings, Queensland shopping, designer labels

Brisbane Arcade

Built in 1923 on the site of notorious confessed murderer Patrick Mayne’s butcher shop, the Brisbane Arcade is a splendid Edwardian baroque gallery of shops

Burnett Lane Brisbane

Brisbane’s oldest lane dates from convict days when the block it cuts through on the Queens St side was the site of the Prisoner’s Cells and Barracks and the Superintendent of Convicts residence

Front stairs and entrance to Ching Chung Taoist Temple in Deagon

Evergreen Taoist Temple

Within the 1991 built walls of this temple, the largest Taoist place of worship in the Southern Hemisphere, rituals that have been observed for thousands of years take place in four exquisitely ornate halls.

Statues in garden park in front of temple in Chung Tian Temple in Priestdale

Chung Tian Temple

On the outer edges of parklands and koala colonies is this peaceful Buddhist retreat with buildings in the Chinese palace architectural style of red and gold

Commissariat Stores building in Brisbane.

Commissariat Store Museum

Tucked away from the city’s thoroughfares, the convict-built Commissariat Stores are one of only two buildings that survived from the penal settlement.

Commonwealth Government Offices

The imposing neo-classical towers of the government offices came to life as part of the government job scheme during the Depression.

Fairy House surrounded by trees on MacGregor Tce Bardon

The heritage-listed iconic house with its composer sculpture garden is now for rent on Air BnB

Jacob's Ladder, King Edward Park, Spring Hill, Brisbane, urban stair climbs, history, Queensland

This thoroughfare between Spring Hill and the Brisbane CBD was indeed little more than a ladder in its early days

Miegunyah house building and hedge on Jordan Tce Bowen Hills

A near to perfectly preserved half acre of house (circa 1886) and land as it was in the last part of Queen Victoria’s reign

Newstead House, Newstead

Brisbane’s earliest surviving house dates from 1846 when it was built as a simple single storey dwelling for pastoralist Patrick Leslie who had pioneered settlement in the Darling Downs region.

Entrance to Nundah Historic Cemetery with tomb stones in the background

Nundah Historic Cemetery

The historic German cemetery started as a small burial ground in 1846 before being opening as a cemetery in 1862

Woodford Folk Festival

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