WARNING: Visitors should be aware that this website includes images and names of deceased people that may cause sadness or distress to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

The National Museum of Australia works with Indigenous Australians to collect, preserve and exhibit Indigenous material culture. The Museum takes a leadership role in using this material to interpret Indigenous Australian histories and engages with local and international visitors through a dynamic program of permanent and temporary exhibitions, publications, forums, workshops, online exhibitions, and collection visits.

The Museum also works closely with Indigenous communities to return human remains and secret/sacred objects to their ancestral custodians. In these webpages you can find out more about past and ongoing Museum projects.

What's new?

> Resistance - four stories of Indigenous resistance

> Goree - April 2010 newsletter

To accurately reflect the past, this section of the website may contain information from oral histories and quotes from original documents. This means that words and descriptions may appear that are not acceptable for use today. The spelling of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander names and words conforms with current community usage.