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For more information or media releases prior to 2003, contact the Museum's Public Affairs team.
MEDIA RELEASES
  • Tasmanians tell their story in a museum first
    10/08/06
    A groundbreaking new museum book which allows Tasmanian Aborigines to tell their own stories is being launched by the National Museum of Australia in Hobart tomorrow.
  • Beads link Commonwealth in new exhibition
    09/08/06
    The creative use of beads across Commonwealth nations over many centuries is explored in a new exhibition opening at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra tomorrow.
  • Experts unravel meaning of Cook curiosities
    26/07/06
    Different perspectives on the cultural significance of artefacts collected on Captain James Cook's Pacific voyages will be discussed at a symposium at the National Museum of Australia this Friday.
  • Dennis Grant joins National Museum team
    18/07/06
    Dennis Grant has taken up the role of Director of Public Affairs at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. He was formerly head of communications and marketing at the Australian War Memorial.
  • New masks and media on show at Museum
    11/07/06
    A spectacular collection of ceremonial masks and headdresses from the Torres Strait and an exhibition looking at the work of Goolarri Media Enterprises in Broome go on show at the National Museum in Canberra this week.
  • Rare Pacific artefacts return to Southern Hemisphere
    30/06/06
    Rare artefacts collected on Captain James Cook's Pacific voyages have returned to the Southern Hemisphere for the first time in 220 years and are on show in an exhibition opening today at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.
  • Talkback Classroom goes to South Korea
    30/06/06
    Two Australian secondary students visiting South Korea to study prospects for peace and reunification will question a key Korean government adviser next week in the National Museum of Australia's first Asian Talkback Classroom.
  • School yard sale brings clock to museum
    01/06/06
    A five-shilling school yard sale has resulted in the National Museum of Australia acquiring a wrecked clock from Australia's first major civil air disaster, 75 years after the Southern Cloud crashed in the Snowy Mountains.
  • Top End students star in new photo show
    31/05/06
    The lives of primary school children living in four remote Top End communities are the focus of a new photographic exhibition that opens at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) this Friday, 2 June.
  • Rare Pacific objects come from Cook to Canberra
    26/05/06
    The world's largest identifiable collection of artefacts collected on Captain James Cook's Pacific voyages goes on show at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra on 1 July.