The art in Gold Coast is like a voyage... It's a discovery, a pleasant find you make as you go about your day.
You might be on your day trip to Mount Tambourine when you'll stumble upon the Gallery Walk with it's sculptures and pottery and woodworks or the Crafter's Gallery.
You might be taking a walk along the beautiful Curumbin Beach Ocean-Walkway and you'll get to see some really fascinating sculptures by 60 of the world's leading artists at the Swell Sculpture Festival.
Or you might wander in for a beer at the Hard Rock Cafe and find yourself looking through a collection of music memorabilia at rock n' rolls most famous museum in Queensland.
The Gold Coast War Museum has an array of memorabilia from the two world wars and the Vietnam War, including tanks, armoured vehicles, planes and posters.
The River Mill located on the Nerang-Beaudesert Rd, just before the Mt Tamborine turnoff is an historic mill built in 1910. It was Australia's first arrowroot mill and has been turned into a popular tourist attraction functioning as a museum, with the old machinery intact. There is a cafe and a small animal park where children can feed camels, donkeys, horses and deer.
Spread over 12 themed galleries, Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum, is a more "today" affair with its buzarre collection. For anyone who's ever played the Ripley's board game as a kid and been fascinated with the trivia, this is a must visit.
The Beudesert Museum showacases a Pioneer Homestead complete with farm implements and a buggy!
There are other collections of aborginal art, a race car museum of Dick Johnsson and even a wax museum for those who haven't made it to Tussaud's.
The Gold Coast City Art Gallery at Surfer's Paradise is one of Australia's most prolific public regional galleries.
Keep yourself willing and open at Gold Coast, cultural activities will beckon and you must plunge in. The Wintersun festival will offer you a taste of sun and wine; Tastes of Gold Coast will tease your palate; Music fests and stage plays at the Conrad Jupiter for the more artistically inclined; just let yourself go and savor every bite and sip and glance. Let the sheer enthusiasm of the people and place... the "aliveness", if you will, infest you!
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