Summary

This 1994 drawing by Barrie Marshall, with the associated drawings and concept plans, was part of the successful entry by architectural firm Denton Corker Marshall for the development of a design for the new Melbourne Museum, planned for a site adjacent to the Royal Exhibition Building in the Carlton Gardens. It was drawn by Barrie Marshall, a partner in the successful firm. The competition was conducted in 1994-95.

This drawing was hung in the Directorate of the Museum of Victoria, 222 Exhibition Street, Melbourne, from c 1996 to early 2000, when it was removed in preparation for the move to the new Museum.

Physical Description

Framed architectural drawing of the amphitheatre and children's museum at Melbourne Museum, opened in 2000. The impressionistic drawing, done in pencil and coloured chalk, is framed behind a mount of museum board and a silver metal frame. It shows a group of people in Asian dress entertaining in an outside stage, with people sitting on tiered seats around; in the background is the tilted highly-coloured building, the Children's Museum.

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