The Friends magazine was produced for members of the Friends of the National Museum of Australia from 2002 to 2011. This award-winning publication partnered the Museum in telling Australian stories.
Friends magazine contained news of the Museum's scholarship, exhibitions, collections and events, along with a look at what other museums were doing across Australia and the globe.
Friends featured commentary on museum issues, news of innovative research, exhibition reviews and details of new acquisitions.
Friends was a high quality, full colour and contemporary publication. It was a flagship publication for the National Museum of Australia and the Friends who supported it. The Friends magazine has now been replaced with The Museum magazine.
Download a selection of past Friends magazine articles here.
2011
Volume 22 No 1, Mar 2011
2010
Volume 21 No 4, Dec 2010
Yalangbara: art of the Djang'kawu (PDF 892kb)
The fashion of life: the Hanna Lemberg collection (PDF 257kb)
Elyne Mitchell's typewriter (PDF 451kb)
Volume 21, No 3, Sept 2010
Andrew Sayers: the National Museum and the story of Indigenous Australia (PDF 154kb)
Here come the brides: the Patricia Druce collection (PDF 1mb)
Symbols of Australia: Gideon Haigh on the baggy green cap (PDF 126kb)
Volume 21, No 2, June 2010
Yiwarra Kuju: the Canning Stock Route (PDF 2mb)
tayenebe: Tasmanian Aboriginal women’s fibre work exchange (PDF 2mb)
Albert Namatjira painting and Cootamundra Girls (PDF 2mb)
Volume 21, No 1, March 2010
From fine wool to high fashion: the story of Miss Faithfull’s dress (PDF 322kb)
The Queen’s Royal Daimler (PDF 186kb)
A Current Affair from some 60 years ago: 1940s Discussion Posters (PDF 367kb)
2009
Volume 20, No 4, December 2009
'A testimony of our esteem': the James Simpson cup (PDF 192kb)
Sunshine: Landmarks gallery development (PDF 1,022kb)
Water is life: exhibition profile (PDF 638kb)
Volume 20, No 3, September 2009
Sir William Dargie's spare 'Wattle Painting' (PDF 962kb)
Raymond Holliday: violin collection (PDF 830kb)
Volume 20, No 2, June 2009
WJ Macdonnell’s telescope (PDF 285kb)
Colyn Cohen's braille pocket watch (PDF 183kb)
George Washington House Barbados (PDF 260kb)
In the footsteps of Annabella Boswell at Port Macquarie (PDF 657kb)
Volume 20, No 1, March 2009
Developing Creating a Country (PDF 174kb)
Rolf Harris and his wobbleboard (PDF 195kb)
Seeking signs of Burke and Wills (PDF 173kb)
Pioneer works of contemporary art: early Papunya watercolours (PDF 340kb)
2008
Volume 19, No 4, December 2008
Dismantling a windmill (PDF 417kb)
Captured in Staffordshire: the story of William Smith O’Brien (PDF 119kb)
Are we there yet? The Carr family's picnic set (PDF 222kb)
Volume 19, No 3, September 2008
A history of Australia: a new genre unfolds. Aboriginal children's art (PDF 226kb)
Snowy story: collecting objects from the Snowy Scheme (PDF 327kb)
A war bride and a toy pig (PDF 99kb)
Volume 19, No 2, June 2008
Expedition photographs of Herbert Basedow (PDF 218kb)
The genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye (PDF 343kb)
Kingsford Smith and the first trans-Pacific flight (PDF 213kb)
Mapmakers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (PDF 376kb)
Volume 19, No 1, March 2008
Children's Medical Research Institute (PDF 131kb)
Exhibitions: League of Legends (PDF 306kb)
Conversation with Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton (PDF 144kb)
Learning about Longford (PDF 165kb)
Cars: racing them and conserving them (PDF 156kb)
2007
Volume 18, No 4, December 2007
Jakarta Embassy bombing: a postscript (PDF 388kb)
One cape, many water rats (PDF 174kb)
What's in a name? Linnaeus and Solander (PDF 214kb)
Reward for courage: the Faithfull bushranger medals (PDF 186kb)
Volume 18, No 3, September 2007
Recalling a wartime childhood (PDF 68kb)
Poster promotes wildlife sanctuary (PDF 190kb)
A chance encounter: Jenny Kee and the Granville train crash (PDF 320kb)
Volume 18, No 2, June 2007
Ernabella collection - a living document (PDF 361kb)
Eternal strings across the nation: keeping the AE Smith collection alive (PDF 595kb)
The Springfield medicine chest (PDF 366kb)
Finding Frank Gardiner (PDF 512kb)
Joe McGinness: Tuckerbox and wharfies' hook (PDF 482KB)
The Gwenda Heginbothom collection - coffee and bridge, anyone? (PDF 597kb)
Kitsch in the kitchen: the Martin Boyd pottery collection (PDF 1mb)
Volume 18, No 1, March 2007
Miss Australia: a nation's quest (PDF 436kb)
Advance Australia and a collection of dog registration tags (PDF 488kb)
Cricket collection in safe hands (PDF 224kb)
Other recent acquisitions: Albert Namatjira plaques (PDF 152kb)
Plenty Stories Indigenous series of books (PDF 841kb)
2006
Volume 17, No 4, December 2006
Les Darcy and a locket (PDF 197kb)
Queenslander stories in Eternity: Mary McConnel and Sir Littleton Groom (PDF 184kb)
'I Treasure hearing stories': keeping culture and Aboriginal Tasmania (PDF 600kb)
Conserving Menzies' Bentley (PDF 427kb)
Recent acquisitions: Captain Cook collectables (PDF 293kb)
Volume 17, No 3, September 2006
Reckitt's blue, boomerangs and other nineteenth century Indigenous artefacts (PDF 364kb)
Springfield settles in (PDF 600kb)
Philip Gidley King's snuffbox: the right snuff! (PDF 193kb)
Another piece of the Southern Cloud laid to rest (PDF 327kb)
Volume 17, No 2, June 2006
In the National Museum: Captain John Gore (PDF 122kb)
Mat Trinca: Cook and the Pacific (PDF 50kb)
Volume 17, No 1, March 2006
Mat Trinca: a mania for collecting (PDF 48kb)
2005
Volume 16, No 4, December 2005
Captivating and Curious (PDF 285kb)
Polio: a virulent and incurable disease (PDF 137kb)
Making sense of visitor opinions (PDF 70kb)
Mat Trinca: emigrant nation (PDF 191kb)
Volume 16, No 3, September 2005
'A shocking calamity': the Canberra air crash, 1940 (PDF 78kb)
Wrapped in a possum skin cloak (PDF, 276kb)
A modern day pilgrimage (PDF 128kb)
Mat Trinca: remembering Berlin (PDF 51kb)
Volume 16, No 2, June 2005
The digger brooch: an Australian original? (PDF 353kb)
The Crimson Thread of Kinship (PDF 92kb)
Miss Australia's Crown presented to the National Museum (PDF 135kb)
Mat Trinca: the museum community (PDF 48kb)
Volume 16, No 1, March 2005
The Springfield collection: an exemplary cultural gift (PDF 450kb)
A new look for the Museum (PDF 396kb)
Mat Trinca: light of ages (PDF 50kb)
2004
Volume 15, No 4, December 2004
'In its rightful place': The National Museum's Captain Cook cup and aaucer (PDF 277kb)
Eternity: Bernard O'Reilly, Susan Pfanner and Ida Fenn (PDF 105kb)
Mat Trinca: the national past (PDF 45kb)
Volume 15, No 3, September 2004
Motoring icons for the National Museum of Australia & the FJ Holden (PDF 617kb)
The Bali bombings 2002: memorial collection (PDF 107kb)
New acquisitions: the Gallery of First Australians (PDF 97kb)
Mat Trinca: The life of things (PDF 45kb)
Volume 15, No 2, June 2004
Collectors and collections (PDF 167kb)
The 'Lion of Athens' ... and other stories remembering Australian Olympians (PDF 98kb)
Tirranna Picnic Races Challenge Cup (PDF 64kb)
New acquisitions: remarkable purchases from a Cabinet Collection (PDF 428kb)
Mat Trinca: collecting the past (PDF 46kb)
Volume 15, No 1, March 2004
Museums old and new (PDF 158kb)
Unravelling mysteries from the past (PDF 163kb)
Fear and terror in Eternity (PDF 59kb)
New acquisitions: the intimate case of Charles Kingsford Smith (PDF 69kb)
Collectors and collections: the Deaconess Hilliard collection (PDF 122kb)
Mat Trinca: full circle, representing the nation (PDF 49kb)
2003
Volume 14, No 4, December 2003
The toll of war: the Eddison brothers (PDF 58kb)
The romance of violin making (PDF 51kb)
Bushranging in the National Historical Collection (PDF 95kb)
The Cummins collection of trade catalogues (PDF 55kb)
Collectors and collections: Lebovic collection of Christmas postcards (PDF 110kb)
Volume 14, No 3, September 2003
Out of the stores: Percival aircraft collection (PDF 509kb)
Collectors and collections: Edmund Milne's collection (PDF 432kb)
Volume 14, No 2, June 2003
New acquisitions: million pound banknote and ballot box (PDF 59kb)
A moment in Eternity: Jane Franklin; Eddie Gilbert; and Linda Agostini, the Pyjama Girl (PDF 50kb)
Out of the stores: unmentionables come out of the closet (PDF 79kb)
The Goddard Family Collection of Aboriginal stone tools and artefacts (PDF 126kb)
Volume 14, No 1, March 2003
Out of the stores: quilt collection (PDF 73kb)
New acquisitions: Tichborne claimant pressed glass plate and pack saddle (PDF 99kb)
Collectors and collections: Herbert Basedow (PDF 106kb)
Eternity's new story: Eva Castley (PDF 62kb)
Another Aussie icon joins the Museum (PDF 193kb)
2002
Volume 13, No 4, December 2002
Out of the stores: large objects conservation and car collection (PDF 289kb)
Collectors and collections: Stan Mitchell (PDF 89kb)
Volume 13, No 3, September 2002
Collectors and collections: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander material (PDF 113kb)
Volume 13, No 2, June 2002
Out of the stores: memories of the Queen Mum 1900-2002 (PDF 197kb)
