1995
The Gallery's first site was created at: www.ozemail.com.au/~agnsw. It contained basic, general information only.

1997
The Gallery's first site at its present URL (www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au) was launched. It was created, as a form of sponsorship-in-kind, by the company Spike. Unfortunately, being static HTML meant that the site had to be managed by a series of email requests to the company, which often resulted in out-of-date pages.

1999
The Gallery hired Squiz.net to build a custom CMS (content management system) to control a new-look site, which was launched in 2000.

2002
The site was migrated, with essentially the same design, to the new MySource open-source* CMS.
E-commerce functionality (via the VSA e-commerce project) was introduced.

2003
The site underwent a major redesign and reorganisation.

2005
26 May: myVirtualGallery is launched.
14 June: A new interface for browsing and searching the Collection is launched.

2006
E-commerce integrated into MySource CMS

(* Open-source software is software that can be downloaded freely, and where the source code is available to anyone to make their own modifications, as long as the results are also available for free.)