Queensland Gallery of Modern Art
The Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, which was opened at Kurilpa Point on 2 December 2006, complements the Queensland Art Gallery. Only 200 metres away and linked by a public plaza, the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art will focus on the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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