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Media
For more information or media releases prior to 2003, contact the Museum's Public Affairs team.
MEDIA RELEASES
  • Museum launches It's Alive! children's book
    17/10/03
    The National Museum of Australia a place that makes history come alive has inspired some of Australia's best known children's writers and illustrators to create an anthology to be launched during Children's Week on Monday.
  • FJ Holden gears up for 50th anniversary
    16/10/03
    The National Museum will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the FJ Holden for many Australians the first family car or the first car they learnt to drive all day Saturday.
  • Wild West and Warner Bros ride into town
    16/10/03
    The largest overseas shipment of outlaw-related objects for the National Museum's new Outlawed! exhibition including fragments from Jessie James' coffin and Kevin Costner's costume in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves arrives in Canberra tomorrow.
  • Melbourne Cup joins Phar Lap at Museum
    10/10/03
    The National Museum showcases two of Australia's icons next week when it displays the Melbourne Cup matched by, from its own collection, the heart of the legendary Phar Lap.
  • Museum snaps the World Cup
    09/10/03
    The National Museum in Canberra kicks off its celebration of the fifth Rugby World Cup next week when it launches a photographic exhibition of great sporting moments captured at earlier World Cup contests.
  • FJ Holden gears up for 50 years on the road
    03/10/03
    In the lead up to the FJ's 50th anniversary celebrations being held in Canberra this month, the National Museum of Australia is searching for an unrestored FJ Holden to add to its vast historic car collection.
  • National Museum the ACT's Best Tourist Attraction
    02/10/03
    The National Museum of Australia has been named the Canberra and Capital Region's Major Tourist Attraction, just three years after bursting on to the national tourism scene.
  • Lockwood locks into Outlawed! deal
    01/10/03
    Lockwood Security Products announces it will be the presenting sponsor of a new travelling National Museum of Australia exhibition exploring legends around the world's outlaws.
  • Warrior's weapons leave NZ for first time
    24/09/03
    Sacred items belonging to Maori leader Hone Heke arrive in Canberra this week, the first of many international deliveries for the upcoming National Museum of Australia exhibition, Outlawed! The World's Rebels, Revolutionaries and Bushrangers, presented by Lockwood.
  • Laurie Oakes takes interview hot seat
    23/09/03
    Political commentator Laurie Oakes will be quizzed about the shifting the role of the press gallery and a recent spate of leaks during a student interview at the National Museum of Australia tomorrow.