| Date | Program | Speaker | Description |
| 6-7 February | Conference | Speakers included Professor Stephen Knight, Robin Hood expert, Cardiff University; Deborah Carmichael, Associate Editor of the United States Film and History Journal and lecturer, Oklahoma State University; Graham Seal, Australia Research Institute; Professor Ann McGrath, Australian National University; Professor Barry Carr, Department of History, La Trobe University; Julie Rigg, ABC Radio; Dr John McQuilton, University of Wollongong; Ian Jones, Kelly historian | Representing Outlaws: Bushrangers, Rebels and Revolutionaries in Popular Culture |
| 6, 13, 20, 27 February | Youth event | Sky Lounge participants, including artists, musicians, animators and speakers | A multimedia event of short animated films and electronic music |
| 19 February | Forum | Richard Neville, futurist | Getting Down to Business 2004 |
| 20 February | Lecture | Professor Jawaid Haider, Professor of Architecture, Pennyslvania State University United States | Designing Museum Experiences for Children and Youth |
| 25 February | Lecture | Dr Charles Elachi, Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Vice President of the California Institute of Technology | Space Exploration in the 21st Century |
| 3-6, 10, 12, 13 March | Performance | Canberra Youth Theatre Company | The Great Garden Game - a theatrical interpretation of the Garden of Australian Dreams |
| 5-6 March | Conference | Speakers included Dr Denise Donlon Curator, Shellshear Museum of Physical Anthropology and Comparative Anatomy; Peter Hiscock Convenor of Archaeology, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University; Ken Dusza, Lecturer in Paleopathology and Forensic Archaeology, School of Social Science, University of Queensland | Forensic Anthropology for Australian Field Conditions and Beyond: Workshop for Heritage and Medico-legal Field Staff |
| 5 March | Lecture | Richard Wright, archaeologist, University of Sydney | Unearthing Evil: an Archaeologist's Experience with War Crimes |
| 11 March | Musical performance | Musicians Carl Pini (violin), George Pedersen (cello), Emma West (violin), John Gould (viola) | Eternal Strings: by the Carl Pini Quartet playing the AE Smith instruments from the Museum's NHC |
| Date | Program | Speaker | Description |
| 12 March | Film screenings | Matthew Fallon and Marissa Martin, convenors, Short::seasons | Short::seasons, the bi-annual screening of film and video by ACT filmmakers |
| 18 March | Talk and tour | Joanne Duke, Senior Curator, National Museum of Australia | Seniors Week tour of Outlawed! exhibition |
| 20 March | Symposium | Wendy McCarthy AO, Chancellor, University of Canberra; Dr Sue Packer, Paediatrician; Emma Nicholson, Rocking Horse Music, Rebecca Gorman, ABC journalist | Living, Loving and Laughing: A symposium aimed at those working with families and young children |
| 21 March | Talk and workshop | Libby Gleeson, writer | An Audience with Libby Gleeson |
| 23 March | Lecture | Professor John Braithwaite, Australian Research Council Federation Fellow, Australian National University | Markets in Vice, Markets in Virtue: The New Regulatory State (with the Australian National University) |
| 25 March | Forum | Hugh MacKay, author and social scientist; Professor James P. Griffin, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, Oxford University; Professor Tony Coady, Applied Philosophy and Ethics, University of Melbourne | 'Right and Wrong': How to Decide for Yourself: A celebration of Hugh MacKay's new book Right and Wrong |
| 26 March | Lecture | Van Sowerwine, artist | Playing with dolls: stop-motion animation and interactive installation, new media lecture with the Centre for New Media Arts, Australian National University |
| 30 March | Lecture | Associate Professor Stephen Preece, School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada | Enhancing Links between the Arts and Corporate Sector (with Museums Australia) |
| 2-3 April | Film screening | Matthew Fallon, convenor | Lights Canberra Action |
| 10-23 April | Outlawed! performance | Nigel Sutton | Storytelling in the Hall and a tour within the exhibition |
| 15 April | Workshop | Jackie French, author | Write your own Outlawed! Adventure |
| 20 April | Tour | Tim the Yowie Man | Mystery Tour of the Museum for children |
| 21 April | Tour | Tim the Yowie Man | Outlawed! exhibition followed by bus tour to bushranger sites near Canberra |
| Date | Program | Speaker | Description |
| 28 April | Forum | Stuart Mackenzie, journalist | National Capital Authority's Griffin Legacy Project: Planning in the ACT |
| 30 April | Lecture | William McClure, artist, philosopher and lawyer, teacher in law at the Sydney Institute of Technology and Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University | Constructing Situations (with the Centre for New Media Arts, Australian National University) |
| 7 May | Lecture | Professor Graham Durant, Professor of Science Interpretation and Communication, and Director of Questacon, the National Science and Technology Centre | The Great Genetic Modification Foods Debate |
| 9 May | Lecture | Professor Jenny Graves, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University | Academy of Science Forum: What can Kangaroos Teach us About Being Human (with the Australian National University) |
| 15 May | Symposium | Speakers Included Rebecca Scott, Communication Manager, CSIRO; Professor Ron Ekers, President of the International Astronomical Union; Bronwen Sandland, Program Coordinator for the Australian National University School of Art Gallery; Professor Neil B Manson, Research School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University; Barbara McConchie, Executive Director, Craft ACT | Taking Time: Symposium with Metis 2004, a major festival celebrating art and science on the theme of time |
| 16 May | Lecture | Dr Peter Veth, Acting Director, Research, AIATSIS and adjunct chair at James Cook University | The Wreck of HMAV Bounty, Pitcairn Island and the Archaeology of Maritime Societies: National Archaeology Week Lecture |
| 17 May | Lecture | Honorary Visiting Professor Jonathan Kingdon, evolutionary biologist, biogeographer and artist | On Learning to Walk on Two Legs: Our Lowly Origins: new explanations for the proliferation of hominin fossil species that have been unearthed in recent years: National Archaeology Week Lecture |
| 20 May | Lecture | Craig Walsh, artist | Insite (with the Centre for New Media Technology, Australian National University) |
| 23 May | Workshop | Daniel Rayner, PhD student, Australian National University | Bone Detective: Forensic Anthropology Workshop (National Archaeology Week) |
| Date | Program | Speaker | Description |
| 4 June | Lecture | Rainer Linz, composer and sound artist | Theatre of Interaction (with the Centre for New Media Technology, Australian National University) |
| 9 June | Lecture | Associate Professor Bruce Chapman | Towards a New Role for Government: Income Related Loans for Social and Economic Progress (The Blake Dawson Waldron Lecture with the Australian National University) |
| 9 June | Talk and tour | Guy Hansen, Senior Curator, National Museum of Australia | Behind the Lines: Exhibition Talk and Tour (Friends) |
| 13 June | Lecture | Sir David Smith, AO, Official Secretary to Australia's five Governors-General from 1973 to 1990 | The Queen, The Governor-General and Us (to mark the Queen's birthday) |
| 15 June | Presentation night | Film and Television students from the Canberra Institute of Technology | Canberra Institute of Technology Film and Television Student Awards Night |
| 19 June | Talk | Frances Isaacs, author | Footprints on the Quicksand: A Collection of Short Stories |
| 23 June | Lecture | Professor Shirley Gregor, Head, Electronic Commerce Research Group and Associate Dean, Research for the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, Australian National University | How does Australia score in the Information Technology stakes? (with the Australian National University) |
| 24 June | Tour and talk | Geoff Pryor and Bruce Petty, political cartoonists | Behind the Lines: Exhibition tour and talk (Friends) |
| 24-25 June | Symposium | Speakers included Chris Gallus MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs; Dr David Hegarty, State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project, Australian National University; Annmaree O'Keeffe, Deputy Director General, AusAID; Professor Mark McGillivray, United Nations University, Helsinki; Dr Michael Ward, NZAID, Dr Derek Sikua, Permanent Secretary, Education, Solomon Islands; Dr Tony Banks, NZAID; Professor Vijay Naidu, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand | International perspectives on improving aid effectiveness: Issues of policy, practice and perspective |
