Hopes the 16-hectare garden and gallery site near Halls Gap will be ‘a green shoot of recovery’ in the bushfire-affected region
A new art gallery dedicated to environmental art has been heralded as a “green shoot of recovery” for tourism in the Grampians, after the region was hit with bushfires two summers in a row.
The Wama Foundation, built 10 minutes outside western Victoria’s Halls Gap, three hours’ drive from Melbourne, opened in July. Stage one of the 16-hectare project is the National Centre for Environmental Art and surrounding endemic botanic gardens and native grasslands.
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