The National Museum of Australia is inviting Australians to "Discover why we are like we are" in a major new branding campaign to be launched next month.

Are you one of the thousands of Australians who has made the pilgrimage to join Anzac Day services at Gallipoli?

Students from the United States will join Australian students in questioning Prime Minister John Howard about the Iraq conflict and other issues next month through a TV hookup between the National Museum and the Smithsonian Institution a new twist in this year's series of Talkback Classroom.

The personal stories of 25 extraordinary Australians, including cricketer Victor Trumper and bionic ear developer Professor Graeme Clark, will be brought to life in one of the National Museum of Australia's most popular galleries next month.

Australia has just weathered the longest and worst drought for a century.

ACT residents whose gardens have been damaged or lost through drought and January's bushfires will get free advice from a panel of experts at a National Museum forum next weekend.

Australia's most successful but now largely forgotten magician will be brought back to life in a performance work during a unique two-week residency this month at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.

One of Australia's foremost historians, Professor John Mulvaney, will reflect on the tangled history that led to the creation of the National Museum of Australia in a lecture this week to mark the Museum's second anniversary.

The National Museum of Australia is throwing open its closet next week to reveal the role of underwear in shaping Australian women's bodies and perhaps their minds.

A writer for young adults whose books feature Vietnamese culture in Australia is spending three weeks at the National Museum of Australia this month as the 2003 resident "Writer in the Museum".