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Future exhibitions

The National Museum develops and hosts a dynamic range of exhibitions. Here are some highlights from the upcoming program.

Irish in Australia, 2011

Detail of a green textile collar with a gold border and metallic tassels. Embroidered in metallic thread on one side of the collar is a shamrock with 'E.C.W.' below. The bottom features an embroidered red flower. The other side of the collar also features the flower, as well as a harp and the letters 'I.N.F.' in metallic thread. There is a metal shamrock clasp in the centre.

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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Landmarks: People and Places across Australia, 2011

Dame Mary Gilmore's typewriter.

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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Forgotten Australians – Our History, 2011

Badges from Roslyn Hall Children's Home, Murray Dwyer Boys Orphanage, Protestant Homes

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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