Heide Museum of Modern Art

The Heide Museum of Modern Art, usually known as Heide, is an art museum located in Bulleen, a Melbourne suburb. The museum, which opened in 1981 and is nestled among sixteen acres of heritage-listed gardens and a sculpture park, contains modern and contemporary art in three unique exhibition structures.

The museum is located on the grounds of a former dairy farm owned by John and Sunday Reed, well-known art patrons. They called the farm Heide after the Heidelberg School, an impressionist art style that emerged in neighboring Heidelberg in the 1880s, after acquiring it in 1934. The Reeds' 19th-century farmhouse, now known as Heide I, became a gathering place for a group of young modernist artists known as the Heide Circle, which included Sidney Nolan, John Perceval, Albert Tucker, and Joy Hester. They are today regarded as leaders of the Angry Penguins, a modernist art movement named after a cultural periodical co-published by the Reeds and poet Max Harris, and are among Australia's best-known painters. Heide's close relationship to this movement is evidenced in many of its displays.

Location: 7 Templestowe Rd, Melbourne, VIC 3105

Website: heide.com.au