Melb Day 3 National Gallery of Victoria

Breakfast was spiral kale and leek borek and a bratwurst as we weren't planning on having lunch but having an early dinner after the gallery

We were very impressed with the quality of art at the National Gallery of Victoria. There were a large number of works by the Masters, and other highly prized contemporary artists. In 1 of our 2 gallery tours of the day, we discussed that this was largely attributed to Alfred Felton. With his bequest the Gallery suddenly gained access to acquisition funds greater than those of the National and Tate galleries in London combined and, between 1904 and 2004, more than 15,000 items were purchased with an estimated value today of approximately one and a half billion dollars.
We did not see everything, hardly peeped into the East Asian gallery despite spending almost 5 hours , including 2 free 1 hour tours and a very quick snack of our leftover breakfast spiral borek for lunch.
We had to pick up a jumper from Southbank bought on Marketplace as
I had completely forgot to pack anything for the potential cold nights in the campervan from Melbourne to Sydney later in our trip. That added an extra 2.4km on our walk to an early dinner. We had planned to have a Chinese meal but saw Stalactites, a Greek restaurant and decided upon that.Read more