Photo: Rory Hyde / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Display cropped. Leonard French’s glass ceiling at the NGV, photographed in 2004.
About this place
Look up in Gandel Hall to see Leonard French’s enormous coloured-glass work. It is a separate discovery within Australia’s oldest public art gallery.
The record
Comparison: Cut glass, rather than every kind of glass roof.
The world record is attributed to the NGV. Hall access can change for events.
Visiting
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Sources
Sources checked 23 September 2026. A publisher’s claim is attributed; it is not a complete independent survey.
- NGV
Source for the record and its stated scope.