The MAPh cafe is closed for a kitchen upgrade, reopening late October 2025. However, we are pleased to offer the space as a reading, relaxation and study area in the meantime! The MAPh shop remains open Tuesday to Sunday.
Deborah Paauwe’s latest series The wayward girls delicately explores the intricate interplay between childhood, adolescence and adulthood. The artist created these images as the recipient of the Wai Tang Commissioning Award.
This exhibition runs alongside the 2025 Bowness Photography Prize exhibition, until 9 November.
Image: Deborah PAAUWE Sunday best 2025, from the series The wayward girls, pigment ink-jet print, courtesy of the artist and GAGPROJECTS (Adelaide)
PHOTOREAL: The crisis of the archive | Photography between analogue and digital, in collaboration with Australian National University (ANU).
This symposium explores the tensions, intersections and evolving responsibilities of photographic archives in the digital age. As museums, artists and institutions grapple with questions of preservation, access, authorship and obsolescence, this symposium creates a dialogue between archivists, photographers, curators, scholars and the public.
This symposium isn’t just about archives – it’s about institutional responsibility, cultural memory and the future of photography.
Keynotes, lectures, short talks + workshops: Find out more and book your ticket here >
Exhibitions and events
Free public and educational tours run daily – hear insights from MAPh's curators, director and education and engagement staff.
The MAPh Cafe is undergoing a kitchen upgrade, and we look to forward to welcoming our long-term operator in late October. However, we are pleased to offer the space as a reading, relaxation and study area in the meantime! The MAPh shop remains open Tuesday to Sunday.
Contact us at maph@monash.vic.gov.au or 8544 0500 with enquiries.
MAPh's function spaces are suitable for lectures, sit-down dinners or cocktail parties and create the perfect setting for your special event.
The precinct is also home to the Wheelers Hill Library.
Visit our MAPh Shop in person or online and browse our curated selection of gifts, books and exclusive publications.
Extend your experience beyond the museum walls and explore the sculpture park.
In 2011, MAPh celebrated its 21st birthday. To commemorate this important event, the City of Monash staged a sculpture competition to fund the design and fabrication of an important sculpture for the MAPh Sculpture Park.
Cliff Burtt was announced the winner ot the sculpture competition and his works Chord (a) and Chord (b) were installed on 24 August 2011.
You can watch the work as it settles into its new surroundings by oxidising (changing colour due to environmental factors) on our flickr page.
860 Ferntree Gully Road
Wheelers Hill Victoria 3150
MAPh welcomes people of all ages, with parking close to our front door, ramps and accessible toilets.
860 Ferntree Gully Road
Wheelers Hill Victoria 3150
Phone +61 3 8544 0500
Entry is free
Opening hours:
Tue–Fri 10am–5pm
Sat–Sun 10am–4pm
Closed Monday
Closed on the following days: Monarch's Official Birthday, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday and any public holidays that fall on a Monday.
Wheelchair accessible
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