MONA, Hobart, Australia: World's best modern art gallery isn't all about 'the weird'

By Mal Chenu
Updated October 26 2016 - 1:08pm, first published October 23 2016 - 12:15am
The lowest level of the Museum of Old and New Art includes a 240-million-year-old, 12-metre-high sandstone wall, a full cocktail bar, and various artworks.  Photo: Mona Gallery
The lowest level of the Museum of Old and New Art includes a 240-million-year-old, 12-metre-high sandstone wall, a full cocktail bar, and various artworks. Photo: Mona Gallery
MONA visitors read the water words in Julius Popp's bit.fall.
MONA visitors read the water words in Julius Popp's bit.fall.
MONA gallery in Hobart. Photo: Leigh Henningham
MONA gallery in Hobart. Photo: Leigh Henningham
MONA on the banks of the River Derwent in Hobart.
MONA on the banks of the River Derwent in Hobart.
Lange Eenzame man.
Lange Eenzame man.

I've reached my fuddy-duddy years. Or at least I must look like I have. We haven't even entered the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart before our guide Rebecca Fitzgibbon has sized me up as terminally uncool. MONA has a reputation for being "out there" and maybe I don't fit the mould.

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