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Volunteers’ role honoured as Museum takes SES uniform into collection
In a year dominated by bushfires and the pandemic, the National Museum is recognising the crucial role of SES volunteers by taking its first ever New South Wales SES uniform into the collection.

Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters
An ancient creation saga featuring a dramatic chase across the Australian deserts is at the heart of the groundbreaking exhibition Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, which opens with the new WA Museum Boola Bardip in Perth on 21 November 2020.

Award-winning National Museum exhibition to tour internationally
The groundbreaking National Museum of Australia’s exhibition Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters will go on display at the UK’s prestigious museum and art gallery The Box in Plymouth from June to October 2021 as part of an unprecedented international tour of Australian art and culture.

National Museum launches pioneering online education initiative
The National Museum of Australia, in partnership with Gandel Philanthropy, has launched a pioneering digital initiative which will take Australian history into classrooms around the country.

National Museum of Australia welcomes federal budget funding
The Museum welcomed federal budget funding to allow the institution to continue taking the Australian story to the nation.

Museum acquires rare treasures from renowned Trevor Kennedy collection
Treasures from an internationally recognised Australian historical and decorative arts collection are coming to the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, after the institution announced a ground-breaking acquisition of key objects from the renowned Trevor Kennedy collection.

Museum publishes remarkable account of Aboriginal Sydney
National Museum of Australia Press has recently published What the Colonists Never Knew: A History of Aboriginal Sydney, written by Dennis Foley and Peter Read.

Endeavour Voyage exhibition extended
The National Museum of Australia is extending its landmark exhibition, Endeavour Voyage: The Untold Stories of Cook and the First Australians until April 2010. The planned British Museum blockbuster, Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes is rescheduled to open on 17 December 2021.

New exhibition gives voice to the narratives of Indigenous Australians
A new exhibition and introduction to the First Australians gallery showcases objects drawn from the National Museum of Australia’s extensive Indigenous collections.

Landmark Endeavour anniversary exhibition
The view from the ship and the view from the shore will feature in a major exhibition at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, marking the 250th anniversary of James Cook’s remarkable 1770 passage up the nation’s east coast in the HMB Endeavour.

New social media project to record pandemic experiences
The National Museum of Australia in Canberra has launched a digital initiative to provide a national platform to record shared experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of an integrated community outreach program in this difficult time.

Major digital project to record bushfire images and stories
The National Museum of Australia in Canberra has launched a digital initiative to provide a national platform for grassroots story-telling and to honour front line emergency workers, as part of a wider collecting and community outreach program dedicated to the summer fire crisis.