Music
Open your ears
Hours:
Thursday to Monday, 10am–5pm
If the weather is good, the music is outside on the lawns. If it’s crap, it’s inside the Ether building nearby. In the museum, you might find musicians-in-residence performing live each day.
Upcoming
Eliza Bird
Free
Eliza Bird
23 January 1pm–2pm
Eliza Bird
Mona Lawns
Eliza Bird
Free
23 January 1pm–2pm
Mona Lawns
Les Coqs Incroyables
Free
Les Coqs Incroyables
23 January 2pm–4pm
Les Coqs Incroyables
Mona Lawns
Les Coqs Incroyables
Free
23 January 2pm–4pm
Mona Lawns
Thursday 23 January 2025
Eliza Bird
Indie pop tunes with with ambient synths and haunting vocals
Free
23 January 1–2pm
Mona Lawns
Les Coqs Incroyables
Swing, French Musette, acoustic, electric and silly songs about poultry. Hard not to like.
Free
23 January 2–4pm
Mona Lawns
Friday 24 January 2025
Golden Sunbird
Wailing, cosmic psych-rock from outer space (and northern Tasmania).
Free
24 January 1–2pm
Mona Lawns
Tiff Norchick
A reclusive creative based in nipaluna. They write songs and choral arrangements, and play harp.
Free
24 January 2–4pm
Mona Lawns
Saturday 25 January 2025
Moses Iten
Moses is a scholar of cumbia music and sound-system culture, here to spin up a storm of stuff he's collected on tours across the globe.
Free
25 January 1–4pm
Mona Lawns
Sunday 26 January 2025
mave
Left-of-centre folk-rock covering death, darkness and general malaise.
Free
26 January 1–2pm
Mona Lawns
Barefoot Nellie
Old time mountain music evoking images of log cabins, woodsmoke and maybe some unrequited love.
Free
26 January 2–4pm
Mona Lawns
Monday 27 January 2025
Goat Rodeo
Two-piece melodic sludge.
Free
27 January 1–2pm
Mona Lawns
Gentle Duel
Desert guitars, synths and sublime vox perform 'sad songs to make you happy'.
Free
27 January 2–4pm
Mona Lawns
Thursday 30 January 2025
Aquarian
Lo-fi ambient dreams. Deep drone with modular synths.
Free
30 January 1–2pm
Mona Lawns
Staggersaur
A hotpot of breakbeat, funk and wobbly bass cooked up by multi-instrumentalist Hayato.
Free
30 January 2–4pm
Mona Lawns
Friday 31 January 2025
N.E.W Monochrome
It stands for 'Neika Electronic Workshop'. Decades-gone electronica and a tough of industrial mayhem from an arsenal of new and vintage synths, samplers and drum machines.
Free
31 January 1–2pm
Mona Lawns
Craig Woodward
Old-time fiddler, banjoist and Cajun accordionist does fiddlin' 'n' singin'; mountain blues and ballads; Cajun two-steps; waltzes and stomps from the swamps.
Free
31 January 2–4pm
Mona Lawns
Saturday 1 February 2025
Dvrkworld
Locals combining garage rock, dream-pop, psychdelia, shoegaze and grunge.
Free
1 February 1–2pm
Mona Lawns
DJ Pressed
DJ. Digger. Producer. Master of the dark arts. Jamaican sound system culture meets 1990s big beat and the bliss of a jazz club dancefloor.
Free
1 February 2–4pm
Mona Lawns
Sunday 2 February 2025
Off-Put
Alt-rock three-piece.
Free
2 February 1–2pm
Mona Lawns
Jamie Lena
Soul-stirring RnB / neo-soul from an emerging South Australian.
Free
2 February 2–4pm
Mona Lawns
Monday 3 February 2025
Rupert Bullard Band
Local bluesy countryish folk-adjacent tunes.
Free
3 February 1–2pm
Mona Lawns
Gianni Puli Hammond Project
A hot local Hammond combo presents original soul-jazz and tributes to the masters.
Free
3 February 2–4pm
Mona Lawns
Thursday 6 February 2025
The Hubbub Quintet
Electric and acoustic abstractions for piano, two saxophones, guitar and percussion.
Free
6 February 1–2pm
Mona Lawns
Charlie McCarthy Quartet
A tribute to the legendary 1930s Parisian jazz-violinist Stéphane Grappelli.
Free
6 February 2–4pm
Mona Lawns
Friday 7 February 2025
MANKIND
Hypnotic, psychedelia-inflected gothic rock and post-punk. Big riffs, melodic verses, synths.
Free
7 February 1–2pm
Mona Lawns
Hosting
Concatenative synthesis: 'it's basically like hell old built-by-hand data string AI technology, where you match WAV grains from input with WAV grains from a sample cluster, sometimes it sounds amazing, sometimes it's really chaotic in a bad way'.
Free
7 February 2–4pm
Mona Lawns
Saturday 8 February 2025
Untermorast with Pip Stafford
The mongrel offspring of industrial drone, ambient noise, minimalist kosmiche and sonic abstraction. Pip will be joining them to improvise with radios, field recordings, found audio and various instruments.
Free
8 February 1–2pm
Mona Lawns
Frengo
Mercurial DJ / producer Frengo returns, promising hypnagogic reveries and abstract sonic scenes.
Free
8 February 2–4pm
Mona Lawns
Sunday 9 February 2025
Blue Eyed Ravens & The Sirens Of Silence
Sydney singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Josh brings a combo of dark folk dirges and neoclassical folk rock.
Free
9 February 1–3pm
Mona Lawns
Monday 10 February 2025
BrazJaz
Samba jazz crew led by percussionist Carlos Ferreira.
Free
10 February 1–2pm
Mona Lawns
Ally Oliver
Emotive tales of grief and acceptance in the lineage of folk icons like Joni and Laura Marling, backed by a new band.
Free
10 February 2–4pm
Mona Lawns
Accessibility
Getting on the ferry
Getting on the ferry
The lower deck is accessible for mobility aids and prams, and includes a bar and accessible toilet. Upon arrival at Mona, you will disembark at the bottom of 99 stairs that lead up to the museum entrance.
Getting around
Getting around
Mobility aids
Mona is mostly accessible for mobility aids (wheelchairs, walking frames and scooters), prams, and assistance and guide dogs. The museum has a ground-level entrance, including an information desk, cloaking and shop; and three subterranean floors: B1 nearest the top, then B2, and B3 at the very bottom. Three lifts operate inside the museum: the main lift takes you from the museum entrance down to B3 and B1; the internal lift shuttles between B3, B2 and B1, but does not exit the museum; and the Pharos atrium travels from B3 to B2, connecting the underground tunnel network. We recommend bringing your own mobility aids (there’s quite a bit of walking in the museum). Mona has some wheelchairs available to borrow, but these can’t be reserved in advance. Speak to staff at the museum entrance when you get here.
Some parts of the museum are not accessible with mobility aids: the Pausiris chamber, parts of the heritage-listed Round House building, and certain artworks such as James Turrell’s Unseen Seen, Richard Wilson’s 20:50 and Alfredo Jaar’s The Divine Comedy.
Taking a break
There are seats throughout the museum if you want to relax (just don’t sit on the art, the curators get sad when that happens, unless it’s an art seat). There’s even a bar. Settle in. Have a drink. If you need somewhere quiet for a break, try the parent and carer room on B3. Speak to gallery staff positioned throughout the museum if you need assistance.
Good to know
The museum can get a bit dark, noisy and sometimes smelly. Strobe lighting operates in some areas; check the map on your O. Be aware if you don’t like confined spaces. Ditto the feeling of getting a bit lost. It’s all part of your journey through Mona. Mona’s grounds are a bit hilly and mostly accessible via footpaths and ramps. Here you’ll find the mostly accessible Moorilla Wine Bar and Ether Building, which houses accommodation reception on the ground floor and the Source Restaurant and Cellar Door upstairs (accessible via lift).
Contact
Contact
If you have any questions or specific requirements, contact our Bookings and Enquiries team before your visit.
And if you have any feedback on accessibility at Mona, please let us know by filling out this form.