Author’s Notes
The Melbourne International Museum of Art does not exist. The building described here takes many of its features from Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria, and MIMA’s permanent collection is also based on that of the NGV. However, the internal layout, staff and events described are entirely fictional and any resemblance to actual people or events, past or present, is entirely coincidental.
For fans of CSI, the program premiered in the USA in October 2000, but wasn’t screened on Australian television until April 2001.
The paintings used or ‘borrowed’ for the exhibition, Masterpieces of Victorian Britain, can be found in the following collections:
Mariana, John Everett Millais, Tate Gallery, London, UK
Man Proposes, God Disposes, Sir Edwin Landseer, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Beata Beatrix, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Earl and Countess of Sefton and daughter, with horses and dogs, Sir Edwin Landseer, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
The vintage festival, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
The Last of England, Ford Madox Brown, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK
Helen of Troy, Frederick Sandys, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Henry Edward Manning, George Frederic Watts, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets, Frederic Lord Leighton, Yale Centre for British Art, Connecticut, USA
No paintings were harmed in the creation of this story.