- Water: H2O = Life opens at the National Museum
10/12/09
As the world debates climate change the National Museum of Australia will present an in-depth look at the planet's most precious natural resource — water.
- Political cartooning exhibition wraps up 2009
10/12/09
A prominent media commentator has raised concerns about the future for Australian cartoonists at the launch of
Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Cartoons 2009 an exhibition of the year's best political cartoons at the National Museum of Australia today.
- Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium
13/11/09
The National Museum of Australia will explore the legacy of the biggest scientific expedition in Australian history at Barks, Birds & Billabongs a week long symposium on the American-Australian scientific expedition to Arnhem Land in 1948.
- National Museum tells the story of a fight for Indigenous rights
09/09/09
From Little Things Big Things Grow: Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920-1970, an exhibition featuring some of the key moments of Aboriginal activism, has been opened by film maker Rachel Perkins at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.
- National Museum rolls out huge paintings with a big story
02/09/09
The National Museum of Australia has acquired two large paintings from the south Kimberley in Western Australia and will conduct a conservation inspection on the works in the Hall of the National Museum this evening.
- Museum exhibition tells a fine yarn about wool
22/07/09
For more than 200 years, wool has been part of Australia's social and economic history. An exhibition about this important Australian story, A Fine Yarn: Innovations in Australia's wool industry, opens today at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.
- Seattle Art Museum returns sacred object to Australia
30/06/09
The Seattle Art Museum has decided to repatriate an important central Australian Aboriginal secret/sacred object to Australia.
- Voyages of the Pacific Ancestors: Vaka Moana
03/06/09
The National Museum of Australia presents a major exhibition which tells the story of the world's last great migration — the exploration and peopling of the vast Pacific Ocean.
Voyages of the Pacific Ancestors: Vaka Moana opens at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra on Friday.
- Museum accepts a major Australian musical work
11/05/09
The National Museum of Australia has accepted a major Australian musical work for orchestra and didjeridu which will be played in public for the first time in the Hall of the National Museum tonight.
- Museum acquires historic portrait of the Queen
08/05/09
The National Museum of Australia has acquired one of the most recognisable and treasured examples of 20th century Australian art, a portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Second by Victorian artist, Sir William Dargie.
