Artist and film maker, Tim Burton, today delighted crowds with an appearance at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne to officially open Tim Burton: The Exhibition, which will be on display at the centre until 10 October, 2010.

Among attendees joining Mr Burton for the opening of the exhibition direct from The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, were Victorian Minister for the Arts Mr Peter Batchelor, ACMI Board President The Hon. John Thwaites, ACMI Director Tony Sweeney, MoMA Director Mr Glenn Lowry, and curators from both institutions.

The major exhibition, presented as part of Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2010, explores the full scale of Burton's career, as director, concept artist illustrator and photographer, through hundreds of artworks that spectacularly illuminate the creative vision behind Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland.