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  • 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

    23 January 1pm–2pm

    Mona Lawns

  • Les Coqs Incroyables

    Free

    23 January 2pm–4pm

    Mona Lawns

  1. Thursday 23 January 2025

    1. Eliza Bird

      Indie pop tunes with with ambient synths and haunting vocals

      • Free

      • 23 January 1–2pm

      • Mona Lawns

    2. Les Coqs Incroyables

      Swing, French Musette, acoustic, electric and silly songs about poultry. Hard not to like.

      • Free

      • 23 January 2–4pm

      • Mona Lawns

  2. Friday 24 January 2025

    1. Golden Sunbird

      Wailing, cosmic psych-rock from outer space (and northern Tasmania).

      • Free

      • 24 January 1–2pm

      • Mona Lawns

    2. Tiff Norchick

      A reclusive creative based in nipaluna. They write songs and choral arrangements, and play harp.

      • Free

      • 24 January 2–4pm

      • Mona Lawns

  3. Saturday 25 January 2025

    1. 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

  4. Sunday 26 January 2025

    1. mave

      Left-of-centre folk-rock covering death, darkness and general malaise.

      • Free

      • 26 January 1–2pm

      • Mona Lawns

    2. Barefoot Nellie

      Old time mountain music evoking images of log cabins, woodsmoke and maybe some unrequited love.

      • Free

      • 26 January 2–4pm

      • Mona Lawns

  5. Monday 27 January 2025

    1. Goat Rodeo

      Two-piece melodic sludge.

      • Free

      • 27 January 1–2pm

      • Mona Lawns

    2. Gentle Duel

      Desert guitars, synths and sublime vox perform 'sad songs to make you happy'.

      • Free

      • 27 January 2–4pm

      • Mona Lawns

  6. Thursday 30 January 2025

    1. Aquarian

      Lo-fi ambient dreams. Deep drone with modular synths.

      • Free

      • 30 January 1–2pm

      • Mona Lawns

    2. Staggersaur

      A hotpot of breakbeat, funk and wobbly bass cooked up by multi-instrumentalist Hayato.

      • Free

      • 30 January 2–4pm

      • Mona Lawns

  7. Friday 31 January 2025

    1. 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

    2. 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

  8. Saturday 1 February 2025

    1. Dvrkworld

      Locals combining garage rock, dream-pop, psychdelia, shoegaze and grunge.

      • Free

      • 1 February 1–2pm

      • Mona Lawns

    2. 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

  9. Sunday 2 February 2025

    1. Off-Put

      Alt-rock three-piece.

      • Free

      • 2 February 1–2pm

      • Mona Lawns

    2. Jamie Lena

      Soul-stirring RnB / neo-soul from an emerging South Australian.

      • Free

      • 2 February 2–4pm

      • Mona Lawns

  10. Monday 3 February 2025

    1. Rupert Bullard Band

      Local bluesy countryish folk-adjacent tunes.

      • Free

      • 3 February 1–2pm

      • Mona Lawns

    2. 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

  11. Thursday 6 February 2025

    1. The Hubbub Quintet

      Electric and acoustic abstractions for piano, two saxophones, guitar and percussion.

      • Free

      • 6 February 1–2pm

      • Mona Lawns

    2. Charlie McCarthy Quartet

      A tribute to the legendary 1930s Parisian jazz-violinist Stéphane Grappelli.

      • Free

      • 6 February 2–4pm

      • Mona Lawns

  12. Friday 7 February 2025

    1. MANKIND

      Hypnotic, psychedelia-inflected gothic rock and post-punk. Big riffs, melodic verses, synths.

      • Free

      • 7 February 1–2pm

      • Mona Lawns

    2. 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

  13. Saturday 8 February 2025

    1. 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

    2. Frengo

      Mercurial DJ / producer Frengo returns, promising hypnagogic reveries and abstract sonic scenes.

      • Free

      • 8 February 2–4pm

      • Mona Lawns

  14. Sunday 9 February 2025

    1. 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

  15. Monday 10 February 2025

    1. BrazJaz

      Samba jazz crew led by percussionist Carlos Ferreira.

      • Free

      • 10 February 1–2pm

      • Mona Lawns

    2. 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

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

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

If you have any questions or specific requirements, contact our Bookings and Enquiries team before your visit.

visit@mona.net.au

+61 (3) 6277 9978

And if you have any feedback on accessibility at Mona, please let us know by filling out this form.