A $14.5m public art gallery expansion of Lyon Housemuseum will open this month. The original Housemuseum, just outside Melbourne, is a singular combination of private residence and private museum where ‘museum’ and ‘living’ are brought together in a single building.
The Housemuseum is the private residence of founding patrons Corbett and Yueji Lyon and is open to the public for pre-booked tours and events. Designed by architect Corbett Lyon, the Housemuseum builds on a lineage of private art collections housed and displayed in residential settings including New York’s Frick Collection, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and London’s Wallace Collection.