National Gallery of Victoria, major Australian art museum, located in Melbourne, Victoria. It is the oldest and most visited gallery in Australia. Situated over two magnificent buildings- NGV International and NGV Australia- the art Gallery hosts collections ranging over European, Asian, and Australian art of all periods. Today the NGV holds the most significant collection of art in the region; a vast treasury of more than 70,000 works that span thousands of years and a wealth of ideas, disciplines and styles.

The museum was once housed entirely in the Victorian Arts Centre, with a Great Hall featuring a dramatic stained-glass ceiling by Leonard French, a Melbourne artist. The building was designed in the late 1960s by Sir Roy Grounds. To facilitate renovation and expansion, the gallery moved in 1999 to temporary accommodations. Only the international art collections were returned to the original facility when it reopened in 2003; the Australian collection was moved nearby to the new Ian Potter Gallery.

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