The Lyon Housemuseum is a hybrid residence and contemporary art museum located on Cotham Road, Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia.
[1] The Housemuseum displays the Lyon Collection of Australian contemporary art in a purpose designed building.
[2] The building is open to the public for pre-booked guided tours, school visits and other events on designated days each year.
Inspired by visits he had made as a student to the Sir John Soane's Museum in London and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice,[11] Lyon designed the new building to explore the relationship between art and living and to contest conventional ideas of public and private space.
The interior of the building is lined with timber panels which are printed with words and texts created by the family.