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The book thus begins with a thorough survey of the historiography of Australian art by Molly Duggins, who provides not only a critical overview of what has become, as already mentioned, a dense field of scholarship, but many indications of directions for further reading in areas of particular interest. This chapter is followed by Gerard Vaughan’s survey of the history of art museums in Australia, the earliest of which were founded surprisingly soon after their models in Britain, and with similar didactic and cultural aims. The story of the formation of collections and of the changing structures and purposes of museums over the last century and a half clearly reflects evolving ideas about Australia as a nation and about the nature of Australian art, so that these two chapters in tandem constitute an introduction to the way that art has been both thought about and exhibited since the beginning of colonization.