Museum Ordered to Allow Man into ‘Ladies Lounge’ Exhibit

The Museum of Old and New Art discriminated against a man by denying him entry to an installation in its Ladies Lounge, a tribunal has ruled.

The Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Thursday, April 9, 2015. Andrew Drummond/AAP

Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art—better known as MONA—has been ordered to allow men into its lounge area exclusive to women, following a case before a tribunal.

Housed within the Moorilla winery in Hobart, MONA is the largest privately funded museum in the Southern Hemisphere. Founded by Tasmanian millionaire David Walsh in 2011, it is renowned for its central themes of sex and death, and has been described by its founder, as a “subversive adult Disneyland.”