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MPavilion 2021 Map Studio (Venice)

Built on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people of the Kulin nation

Each summer since 2014, the city of Melbourne is presented with the MPavilion – a temporary pavilion located in the Queen Victoria Gardens within the Eastern Kulin nation, just across from the Melbourne Arts Precinct. The MPavilion comes to life as a “cultural laboratory where the community can come together to engage and share”1 via an independent public program of events, talks and concerts presented by Australian and international artists and designers.

The commission is sponsored by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation, with Milgrom personally

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