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National Gallery of Australia
The National Gallery of Australia (NGA; originally the Australian National Gallery) is the national art museum of Australia as well as the largest art museum in the country, holding more than 166,000 works of art.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=National Gallery of Australia )〕 It was established in 1967 by the Australian government as a national public art museum.
== Establishment ==
Prominent Australian artist Tom Roberts had lobbied various Australian prime ministers, starting with the first, Edmund Barton. Prime Minister Andrew Fisher accepted the idea in 1910, and the following year Parliament established a bipartisan committee of six political leaders—the ''Historic Memorials Committee''. The Committee decided that the government should collect portraits of Australian governors-general, parliamentary leaders and the principal "fathers" of federation to be painted by Australian artists. This led to the establishment of what became known as the ''Commonwealth Art Advisory Board'' (CAAB), which was responsible for art acquisitions until 1973. Nevertheless, the ''Parliamentary Library Committee'' also collected paintings for the Australian collections of the ''Commonwealth Parliamentary Library'', including landscapes, notably the acquisition of Tom Roberts' ''Allegro con brio, Bourke St West'' in 1918. Prior to the opening of the Gallery these paintings were displayed around Parliament House, in Commonwealth offices, including diplomatic missions overseas, and State Galleries.
From 1912, the building of a permanent building to house the collection in Canberra was the major priority of the CAAB. However, this period included two World Wars and a Depression and governments always considered they had more pressing priorities, including building the initial infrastructure of Canberra and Old Parliament House in the 1920s and the rapid expansion of Canberra and the building of government offices, Lake Burley Griffin and the National Library of Australia in the 1950s and early 1960s. Finally in 1965 the CAAB was able to persuade Prime Minister Robert Menzies to take the steps necessary to establish the gallery.〔, pp2-9〕 On 1 November 1967, Prime Minister Harold Holt formally announced that the Government would construct the building.
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