MONA will stand as a testimony to the power of sexuality to drive creativity. Overarching the collection is a view that sex and death predominate in art, both as subject matter and also provide a significant motive for its creation.

Mining many of humanity’s most inventive cultures and juxtaposing their artistic traditions with contemporary radicalism, social realism and the genesis of modernism, MONA will attempt, in part through shock and sublimity, to engage the visitor whilst presenting a synoptic view of the process by which art is generated. MONA’s collection ranges from Egypt and the rest of Africa through Mesopotamia to Mesoamerica and dips its toes into other ancient cultures when the collecting policy so impels it.

The collection is also strong in Australian modernism and contemporary Australian, British and American art. If visitors to MONA leave with their opinions polarised as to the success of the venture, then those behind the collection will consider the outcome to be distinctly positive. MONA will be the largest private museum in Australia when it opens in January 2011.

Text from www.mona.net.au

Third Drawer Down have created the basic MONA store supplies, including tissue paper, poster tubing and pin badges and also a range of 6 fashion t-shirts which are for sale in there store.