As with certain Tantric motifs or African sculptures, the Aboriginal paintings offer further evidence that "abstraction" is hardly a Western phenomenon.
A gigantic and distinctively Aboriginal painting by Freddie Tims dominates the forecourt and main entrance to the building.
This controversy, which shook the Aboriginal art market at the time, resulted in much stricter emphasis being put on the documentation of authorship in Aboriginal paintings.
Secret designs restricted to a ritual context were now in the market place, made visible to Australian Aboriginal painting.
The plateau contains rare Aboriginal paintings and impressive sandstone gorges, including the Carnarvon Gorge.
One of the main features is a rock shelter popularly known as Baiame Cave, which contains a group of Aboriginal paintings.
Orchestra Shell Cave in Wanneroo had Aboriginal paintings on the roof and walls.
Witchetty grubs feature as Dreamings in many Aboriginal paintings.
The current record price for an Aboriginal painting - $490,000 - was paid for a work by the Kimberley artist Rover Thomas, a former cowboy.
And then there are ancillary things like a collection of decorative arts, the furniture (including several original, early modern pieces by Josef Hoffmann) and Aboriginal paintings.
