We continue our 'Music at the Museum' workshops for adults with a disability (16 years and over) with music therapist Julie Wright.

Come and join in the fun and explore our exhibitions through music.

For adults (16 years and over)
Free
Bookings essential by email bookings@nma.gov.au or phone (02) 6208 5021 (business hours)
Meet at the Information Desk

If you are deaf, hearing or speech impaired you can call the Museum through the National Relay Service: TTY 1800 555 677; Speak and Listen 1800 555 727; Internet relay and please request 1800 026 132.

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Friends program

Friends of the National Museum and The National Trust invite you to join us for a fascinating look into the history of Acton from prehistoric to modern times. As well as an early gathering place for corroborees, Acton can boast the hosting of a courthouse, parsonage, piggery, sheep stud, administrative centre, hospital and now the National Museum and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. In an illustrated lecture, well-known Canberra historian and writer Allen Mawer will take us through the history of Acton, its central role on the development of Canberra, and its surviving built environment from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Cost: $10, $5 Friends (includes refreshments)
Friends Lounge

Friends program

Join curator Anthea Gunn on a special tour of the Glorious Days exhibition, with a focus on photography in 1913.

Cost: $12, $8 Friends (includes refreshments and exhibition entry)
Bookings essential by email friends@nma.gov.au or phone (02) 6208 5048 (business hours)
Friends Lounge and galleries 

Join us for hands-on art and craft activities inspired by the Museum’s collections and exhibitions. Suitable for preschool-aged children and their carers.

Cost: $12, $6 Friends
Limited numbers
Bookings essential by email bookings@nma.gov.au or phone (02) 6208 5021 (business hours)
The Hall

Find out what was happening in Australia 100 years ago in our Glorious Days lecture series.

Join environmental historian Professor Tom Griffiths, as he discusses 'Australians in Antarctica, 1913'.

Free
Bookings essential by email bookings@nma.gov.au or phone (02) 6208 5021 (business hours)
Visions Theatre

Come and explore the Museum's Library and all it has to offer. Meet the Library staff who will guide you through our rich book collection, including the publications from 1913 that were the inspiration for their food blog, The Mixing Bowl.

Free, but spaces are limited

BOOKED OUT

Come and explore the Museum's Library and all it has to offer. Meet the Library staff who will guide you through our rich book collection, including the publications from 1913 that were the inspiration for their food blog, The Mixing Bowl.

Free, but spaces are limited

BOOKED OUT

'World Landscape Art Exposition in China'

Friends program

Talk by Neil Hobbs, internationally renowned and highly awarded, Canberra-based landscape architect. China is staging a huge exposition May – October 2013. The site covers an area 3 kilometres x 1 kilometre in the new Jinzhou City on the edge of the Bohai Sea. Only 20 leading landscape architects from around the world have been asked to design gardens for the exposition and Canberra’s own Harris Hobbs (www.hhl.com.au) has created the only Australian garden: The Garden of the Southern Cross. Neil Hobbs will talk about the huge site and inspiring scheme, the individual gardens, his own creation, and the problems of working in China, all fully illustrated with photographs.

Cost: $25 (includes refreshments)
Sold only through the OGA Website www.opengarden.org.au or by phone to Abigail Place 0458 700 079. Only unsold tickets will be available on the night
Visions Theatre

Friends program

Prominent women talk about their lives, work and passions. This month we welcome Rear Admiral Robyn Walker, Royal Australian Navy. Admiral Walker is the first female in the Navy to attain the rank of Rear Admiral and to take on the job of Surgeon General for the Australian Defence Force. The talk will be followed by a celebration of eight years of Women's Voices/Landmark Women.

Cost: $10, $5 Friends (includes refreshments)
Bookings essential by email friends@nma.gov.au or phone (02) 6208 5048 (business hours)
Visions Theatre and Main Hall