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Media
For more information or media releases prior to 2003, contact the Museum's Public Affairs team.
MEDIA RELEASES
  • National Museum of Australia turns two!
    11/03/03
    The National Museum of Australia celebrates its second birthday tomorrow, with Director Dawn Casey donning an apron and chef's hat to put the finishing touches on the Museum's cake.
  • Behind-the-camera look at Aussie films
    10/03/03
    Film producer Rebel Penfold-Russell will draw back the curtain on her career, show her favourite footage, and tell some behind-the-scenes stories about the Australian film industry at the National Museum next week.
  • Pollies at the end of the cartoonist's pen
    28/02/03
    Politicians get the last word in a forum at the National Museum this Sunday when they reveal how it feels to be caricatured by Australia's best cartoonists.
  • Rare Trades, Making things by hand in the digital age
    14/02/03
    An intriguing exhibition featuring the tools, methods and philosophies of skilled trades people opens at Scienceworks on 18 February, 2003.
  • Frontier Conflict explored in Museum book
    07/02/03
    The National Museum of Australia continues to explore the controversial issue of armed conflict between European settlers and Aborigines with the publication of Frontier Conflict: The Australian Experience, to be launched at the Museum in Canberra next Monday, February 10.
  • Museum Voices bound for the classroom
    03/02/03
    An ambitious series of educational materials aimed at bringing history alive for primary school students will be launched next Wednesday, February 12 at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.
  • Sky Lounge: Music + new media under the stars
    31/01/03
    Kick back and imagine the future at the National Museum's outdoor new media festival Sky Lounge each Friday night in February.
  • Humphrey B Bear gives to National Museum
    21/01/03
    Children's TV star Humphrey B Bear today hands over iconic Humphrey memorabilia including, reluctantly, his famous honeypot for the National Historical Collection held at the National Museum of Australia.
  • Weapons cartoon takes the political cake
    21/01/03
    A topical cartoon on the search for weapons of mass destruction has won Fairfax contributor Ron Tandberg the National Museum of Australia's 2002 Political Humour Award.
  • Bonzer Aussie English for Australia Day
    20/01/03
    The National Museum of Australia is celebrating Australia Day with a fair dinkum book launch complete with pavlovas and lamingtons, backpackers and Aussie English.