MPavilion Parkville
MPavilion Parkville is the University of Melbourne’s open-air space for art, ideas and experimentation. The pavilion hosts a program of free workshops, performances, installations and pop-up encounters designed for connection and shared discovery. Working with University researchers, artists and practitioners, MPavilion Parkville translates research into hands-on public experiences. It’s a place to explore, test and share ideas together – where curiosity and knowledge come to life in the open.
MPavilion
MPavilion is an initiative of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation and is supported by the City of Melbourne and the Victorian State Government through Creative Victoria. It is Australia’s leading architecture commission—a cultural laboratory where the community can come together to engage and share. Each year since 2014, the Naomi Milgrom Foundation has commissioned an architect to design a pavilion for the Queen Victoria Gardens. The MPavilion then presents a free program season of cultural events and activations. At the close of each season, the MPavilion is gifted by the Foundation to the people of Victoria and relocated to a new home.
Find out more about the project at mpavilion.org
History
The MPavilion 2019 by Glenn Murcutt AO was first presented at Southbank’s Queen Victoria Gardens. Thanks to a generous philanthropic cultural gift from the Naomi Milgrom Foundation, it now has a new home in University Square, on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Eastern Kulin nation.
Often referenced as Australia’s most famous architect, Glenn is the only Australian recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2002) and in 2021, received the Praemium Imperiale, a global arts prize awarded annually by the Emperor of Japan. Glenn is internationally recognised for environmentally sensitive and responsible designs with a distinctive Australian character.