Director
Katherine McMahon was appointed Director of the National Museum of Australia in February 2024. She has 30 years’ experience in government and for the past two decades has held senior leadership roles in cultural institutions.
Katherine led the delivery of the Museum’s gallery renewal program culminating in the groundbreaking environmental history gallery Great Southern Land and a new Discovery Centre for the Museum’s youngest visitors.
She has been instrumental in the Museum’s major exhibitions program, bringing some of the world’s great collections to Australia from international partners, and has overseen unprecedented success in the acquisition of major cultural collections.
Katherine's stewardship of the Museum’s First Nations programs has delivered key initiatives working in partnership with First Nations peoples and communities, including the Museum’s flagship international touring exhibition, Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, in partnership with the traditional Aboriginal custodians and knowledge holders of the Seven Sisters Songline story from the APY, NPY and Martu lands of the Central and Western deserts.
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