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The Museum of Art and Culture (MAC) hosts a range of engaging exhibitions throughout the year, including travelling and MAC curated exhibitions, as well as our 'Art in Your Community' program featuring works by local artists.

Adult art classes

Have you ever considered joining an art class? Unleash your inner artist with adult art classes for artists of all skill levels.

Kids art classes

Explore a captivating world of art, craft, stories, educational and technical art classes especially for kids.

Upcoming exhibitions

Learn more about the fascinating exhibitions soon to be on display at the Museum of Art and Culture.

Three Bears Cafe

Located within MAC, Three Bears Café offers a delicious menu to enjoy as you reflect on your art experience.

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Events

Peter Gardiner: Oceanica

16 July 2022

Peter Gardiner major new series of epic paintings unfolded like stories of the sea. To be within Oceanica, is to journey through the unknown, navigating mythology and the forces of nature.

Art in Your Community: Newcastle Music Therapy - See Me, Hear Me

30 June 2022

Self portraits by people with diverse identities and life experiences.

JamFactory ICON Kunmanara Carroll: Ngaylu Nyanganyi Ngura Winki

30 June 2022

JamFactory ICON Kunmanara Carroll: Ngaylu Nyanganyi Ngura Winki (I Can See All Those Places) is a major solo exhibition which showcases a significant body of Carroll’s final ceramic works and paintings supported by a tapestry produced by the Australian Tapestry Workshop

One foot on the ground, one foot in the water

30 June 2022

This exhibition presents paintings, sculptures, installations and sound works, that challenge us to reckon with death and dying as an inherent part of life, invoking experiences of loss, impermanence, transience, remembrance, memorialisation and varied expressions of grief.

ARTSPACE free family artmaking

03 July 2022

Creative fun for the whole family - 2022

Descriptive Art Tour ‘One foot on the ground, one foot in the water’

03 July 2022

Gallery Educators will lead an art tour of the works on display at the Museum of Art and Culture on the waters edge at Lake Macquarie

Art in Your Community: Brett Piva Mural Project

04 July 2022

This mural represents elements and forms derived from a workshop led by Brett with Warner’s Bay High School Students.

'The master from Marnpi' with biographer Alec O’Halloran

09 July 2022

Join the MAC Society as they host Dr Alec O’Halloran, authorised biographer for master artist Namarari from Marnpi. Dr O'Halloran will provide Namarari's background story as well as a Q and A session and book signing.