The Johnston Collection

The Johnston Collection is a multi-award-winning and critically acclaimed museum that invites creatives from the broader visual arts and design communities to re-interpret the Collection through a regular program of re-installation and interventions of the permanent collection.

The museum has a superb collection of English Georgian, Regency, and Louis XV fine and decorative arts, and objet d’art which was a gift from William Robert Johnston (1911-1986) to the people of Victoria. Johnston was a prominent Melbourne-born antique dealer, real estate investor and collector. The Collection is displayed in a constantly changing domestic setting, in his former residence, Fairhall, a historic East Melbourne townhouse.

The museum also offers special exhibitions, study days, lectures and workshops throughout the year, sharing stories and inspiring communities. The exhibition-house Fairhall has a superb collection of Georgian, Regency and Louis XV art and antiques regularly rearranged within a domestic setting.

The Johnston Collection is located in a residential area of East Melbourne. Visitors are brought to Fairhall by a courtesy bus from a pick up point at the Pullman on the Park Hotel in East Melbourne.