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Media
For more information or media releases prior to 2003, contact the Museum's Public Affairs team.
MEDIA RELEASES
  • Sky Lounge: Music + new media under the stars
    29/01/04
    Forget the usual Friday nights this February, when the National Museum brings together a top lineup of musicians, animators and young artists to imagine the future at Sky Lounge 2004.
  • Aussie English gets a guernsey at Museum
    21/01/04
    A new book taking a light-hearted look at Australian phrases including off like a bride's nightie and verandah over the toyshop is being launched at Canberra's National Museum of Australia on Monday.
  • Novell turns virtual 'My Museum' project into reality
    15/01/04
    Virtual visitors to the National Museum of Australia will be able to create their own personal museum online thanks to the latest identity management and web technologies provided by Novell as part of a major sponsorship deal.
  • Nation's best cartoonists go Behind the Lines
    18/12/03
    Queensland Minister for the Arts Matt Foley today launched an exhibition of Australia's best political cartoons from a year marked by the conflict in Iraq.
  • Taking Alice Springs to the National Museum
    17/12/03
    The National Museum of Australia in Canberra wants to hear from community groups in Alice Springs who would like their suburb to feature in a photographic exhibit which depicts 'life in the burbs'.
  • Crime writers investigate love of whodunits
    10/12/03
    Some of Australia's top crime writers will look for clues about the amazing popularity of their chosen genre at a National Museum of Australia forum this Sunday.
  • High-tech outlaws storm cyber space
    08/12/03
    Blockbuster films on a dozen big screens, a new website, interactive games and a do-it-yourself movie studio all help visitors to the National Museum of Australia's new Outlawed! exhibition achieve the ultimate museum multimedia experience.
  • Enterprise slips back into lake after major works
    05/12/03
    The National Museum of Australia's resident paddlesteamer, the Enterprise, will be relaunched on Lake Burley Griffin on Monday after an intensive three-week overhaul.
  • New exhibition marks DisAbility Day in Canberra
    02/12/03
    A collection of art works reflecting the spaces, faces and places of Australia go on display at the National Museum tomorrow, to celebrate the International Day of People with a DisAbility.
  • Female outlaws crack gender barriers
    02/12/03
    India's recently murdered Bandit Queen leads the female outlaws legends portrayed in a new National Museum of Australia exhibition.