 He visited Melville Island and Arnhem Land to collect work for the National Art Gallery.He mounted a touring exhibition of Aboriginal bark paintings, carvings, and other work, resulting in Berndt's book "Australian Aboriginal Art" (1964), and the major "Melanesian Art" exhibition in 1966.The nineteenth-century gallery was redesigned, largely Tuckson's achievement, as "The Art Gallery of New South Wales" (1972).