University Gallery The University Gallery was established in 1972 in the Medley Building at the Grattan Street entrance of the University on the fourth floor of the East Tower. From its early years it housed university portraits of the period 1880-1977 and material from archives and the
Grainger Museum, in a collection sourced from commissions, purchases, gifts and bequests of Dr
Joseph Brown,
Russell Grimwade,
Norman Macgeorge, and
Harold Clive Disher, and the
Norman Lindsay Collection, and Leonard Adam Ethnographical Collections. It was opened in April 1975 by Sir
John Rothenstein CBE. Staff in 1975 were curator, Betty Clarke and assistant curator,
Maudie Palmer AO.
University of Melbourne Museum of Art Over 1988, additional gallery space was created in the former Physics Annexe on Swanston Street. At this point the institution became known as the University of Melbourne Museum of Art, with the Swanston Street site housing the Ian Potter Gallery and Art Conservation Centre. Meanwhile the Old Physics galleries continued regular operation.
The Ian Potter Museum of Art The University of Melbourne's art collection was officially renamed The Ian Potter Museum of Art in July 1998 when the current building opened in 1998, designed by the architect
Nonda Katsalidis of Katsalidis Architects. The architect project team included Bill Krotiris, Adrian Amore, Lisette Agius, Donna Brzezinski, Keiran Boyle, Kei Lu Cheong, Luisa Di Gregorio, Holger Frese, Chris Godsell, Robert Kolak, Barbara Moje, Rainer Strunz, Marius Vogl, Jackie Wagner.
The Potter, as it is known locally, == Staff and associates ==