National Museum of Australia - Indigenous

From our galleries and exhibitions

70% Urban

A Different Time

A Different Time

Bipotaim exhibition

Bipotaim

Circa theatre exterior

Circa

Cook's Pacific Encounters exhibition

Cook's Pacific Encounters

Dhari a Krar exhibition

Dhari A Krar

From Little Things Big Things Grow exhibition

From Little Things Big Things Grow

First Australians gallery

First Australians

Inside: Life in Children's Homes and Institutions exhibition

Inside

Menagerie

Off the Walls exhibition

Off the Walls

Paipa exhibition

Paipa

Papunya Painting: out of the desert exhibition

Papunya Painting: Out of the Desert

Recoil exhibition

ReCoil

Utopia exhibition

Utopia

Warakurna exhibition

Warakurna

Yalangbara: Art of the Djang'kawu

Yalangbara

Yiwarra Kuju exhibition

Yiwarra Kuju

Online features

Collaborating for Indigenous Rights

Collaborating for Indigenous Rights

Many Rhymes, One Rhythm

Many Rhymes, One Rhythm

Barks, Birds and Billabongs

Barks, Birds and Billabongs

Aboriginal breastplates online feature

Aboriginal breastplates

Cook's Pacific Encounters: Cook-Forster Collection online

Cook's Pacific Encounters: Cook-Forster Collection

Collection highlights

Warakurna history paintings - Camel Lady detail

Warakurna history paintings

Kinchela Boys Home gate

Kinchela Boys Home gate

Detail of Ernabella batik

Ernabella Arts collection

Detail of a pair of white gloves

Faith Bandler's gloves

Mornington Island headress front and back view.

Mornington Is headdress

Black and white pencil sketch on a piece of lined paper showing four men dancing.

Oscar's sketchbook

Detail of visitor looking at a painting

Papunya collection

Detail of a shell necklace.

Tasmanian shell necklaces

Sydney Harbour Bridge sculpture of red shells covering a red felt background. Â© Esme Timbery. Licensed by VISCOPY, Sydney 2009.

Shellwork Harbour Bridge

Detail of a Yawk Yawk sculpture

Yawkyawk sculptures

Detail of Evonne Goolagong Cawley holding her 1980 women's Wimbledon trophy

Goolagong tennis collection

Collection interactives

A screenshot image of an interactive

Oscar's sketchbook

Audio on demand

Constitutional recognition – so what?

Off the walls exhibition launch

Emily Kame Kngwarreye series

Who You Callin' Urban? forum

Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium

The art of cutting stone: Aboriginal convict labour in 19th-century NSW and Van Diemen's Land

Mick Gooda joins the conversation

Force for good: how Indigenous Australians have enriched football

A compleat archaeologist: tribute to Dr Mike Smith

Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference

Mabo 20 years on: a celebration

Classroom resources

Detail from the Oscar's Sketchbook interactive

Oscar's Sketchbook – Flash interactive

Years 5 and up
Indigenous culture & history, Australian history, arts

The Australian National Dictionary Centre

Sketch by an Indigenous boy

Collection highlights tagged 'Indigenous'

Years 9–12
Indigenous culture & history

View all classroom resources for Indigenous culture & history

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