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Explore colonial-related objects, exhibitions and stories from the collection of the National Museum of Australia.

Convict Tokens

Convict cargo – settlement at Sydney Cove

Springfield–Faithfull family collection

Autograph quilt

First Fleet table

Governor King’s snuffbox

Governor Lachlan Macquarie's sword

Victorian goldfields nugget

Race to the Gold Diggings game

Sir Thomas Mitchell duelling pistols

The Australian Sketchbook

Ned Kelly collection

Nelson the Newfoundland's dog collar

Nowland's mail coach

Quail's saddlery collection

Portrait of Jorrocks

Ranken family coach

Springfield–Faithfull family collection

Sergeant Arthur Steele’s sword

Richard Daintree's glass photographic plates

Endeavour cannon

Daisy Bates collection

Captain Cook's navigational instruments

Burke and Wills collection

Amelia Campbell’s coffee urn

Sparkes bare knuckle boxing cup

Trevor Kennedy Collection

WJ Macdonnell’s telescope

Willsallen sulky collection

Zilm family furniture

Australian Colonial Billiard Table

Mr Squiggle and Friends – the Norman Hetherington collection

Listen Creating a colony: the European settlement of Tasmania 1803–1853

Race to the Gold Diggings game

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