Future exhibitions

The National Museum of Australia is developing a major exhibition on the Irish in Australia, to open on St Patrick's Day 2011. The exhibition will cover the Irish presence in Australia from the day in January 1788 when a small number of Irish convicts, marines and officials walked off the transports of the First Fleet to the continuing arrival in our own time of young Irish backpackers.

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In 2011 a major new exhibition gallery Landmarks: People and Places across Australia (formerly known as Creating a Country) will replace the current Nation program at the National Museum. Landmarks will trace a broad history of Australia since European colonisation of the continent in the late eighteenth century.

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The National Museum of Australia is putting together an exhibition to tell some of the stories of those who experienced institutional care as children. It will be a voice for those Australians and a chance for others to understand something of what their fellow Australians went through.

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