Bundoora Homestead Art Centre

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre is the public art gallery for the City of Darebin and the home of visual arts in the municipality. The gallery is housed in a magnificent Queen Anne-style Federation mansion, built in 1900 by the Smith Family on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people. In 1920 JVM Smith sold Bundoora Park to the Commonwealth Government and over the next 70 years the building was used as a convalescent farm for returned war veterans and a mental repatriation hospital until decommission in 1993. In 2001, with the help of La Trobe University and the Commonwealth Government, Darebin City Council restored Bundoora Homestead and opened it to the community as an arts and cultural space. The house and gardens are registered by Heritage Victoria and certified by the National Trust.