collections

OUR COLLECTION

Explore the CAM collection of over 2000 artworks and 4000 historical artefacts.

Founded in 1913, the Castlemaine Art Museum has a unique collection of Australian art and fascinating historical artefacts reflecting the early history of the district.

The art collection's focus on Australian art extends beyond familiar media such as painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing to include graphic arts (especially illustration and cartooning) as well as ceramics. Recently, CAM has initiated prizes in contemporary art and printmaking that seek to reinforce the museum’s original attention to living Australian artists. The art collection consists of approximately 1600 paintings, prints and works on paper; 200 art ceramics, 80 plinth-scale sculptures, and 120 photographs.

The social-historical collection includes furniture, costume and textiles, photographs in 19th and early-20th century formats, ceramics, metalwork, natural history specimens, documents and historical publications, municipal and community documents, architectural ornaments, gold rush artefacts, and items associated with people of local historical significance.

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copyright

Castlemaine Art Museum respects the rights of artists and copyright holders.

Many artworks and images appearing on this website remain subject to copyright. Copyright may be held by the artist, their estate, or other rights holders.

Images and information on this website may be used for private research, study or educational purposes, provided that proper acknowledgement of the artist and Castlemaine Art Museum is given.

If you would like to reproduce, publish or otherwise use images from the CAM collection — including in print, online, exhibitions, publications or commercial projects — permission must first be obtained.

In some cases, you may also need to seek permission from the artist or copyright holder.

Castlemaine Art Museum respects the rights of artists and copyright holders.

Many artworks and images appearing on this website remain subject to copyright. Copyright may be held by the artist, their estate, or other rights holders.

Images and information on this website may be used for private research, study or educational purposes, provided that proper acknowledgement of the artist and Castlemaine Art Museum is given.

In some cases, you may also need to seek permission from the artist or copyright holder.

Credit line

When reproducing works from the CAM collection, the following information must be clearly credited where possible:

Artist name, artwork title, date (if known), Castlemaine Art Museum Collection.

When reproducing works from the CAM collection, the following information must be clearly credited where possible:

Artist name, artwork title, date (if known), Castlemaine Art Museum Collection.

Requesting image permissions

For image permissions or reproduction enquiries, please contact: info@castlemaineartmuseum.org.au

Castlemaine Art Museum makes every effort to respect the rights of artists and copyright holders and asks that users of this material do the same.

For image permissions or reproduction enquiries, please contact: info@castlemaineartmuseum.org.au

Castlemaine Art Museum makes every effort to respect the rights of artists and copyright holders and asks that users of this material do the same.

acknowledgments

Thank you to our generous supporters who have facilitated the development of our online collection and digitisation project.

Thank you to the Albert and Barbara Tucker Foundation through Smith & Singer, Creative Victoria through the Digitisation Roadshow, AMaGA Victoria's Regional Galleries Digitisation Program, and our collection volunteers.