How has a digital twin helped the Museum capture Tom Hetherington-Welch performing with his grandfather’s puppets? Join Asti Sherring and Candice Cranmer from our Changeable and Digital Collections team as they discuss their collaboration with the Hetherington family and the University of New South Wales. Free and exclusive to Friends, bookings essential. Join Friends

Join Senior Conservator Kerryn Wagg and Senior Curator Danielle Cassar to go behind-the-scenes of our Mr Squiggle and Friends exhibition and hear how Norman’s spectacular painted stage backdrop from his 1950 play, The Reluctant Dragon, was prepared for display. Free and exclusive to Friends, bookings essential. Join Friends

Journey through Korean culture in this fascinating look at the country’s dynasties, empires, states, foreign conquests, occupation and division. Michael J Seth explores how Korea transformed from isolated peninsula to two starkly different nations, from the seventh century to today. Exclusive to Friends. Join Friends

Don’t miss this special book club event! Join Professor Clare Wright OAM, author, historian and Chair of the Council of the National Museum, for our August meeting. The third book in her Democracy Trilogy, this important Australian work is a personal and engaging narrative of the bark petitions created by the Yolngu people at Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land in 1963, protesting mining on traditional lands. Exclusive to Friends. Join Friends

Join us to discuss Lest, the latest work by acclaimed journalist and historian Mark Dapin. Millions of dollars are spent commemorating Australia’s military history, but do the myths reflect the reality? What actually happened? This book aims to set the record straight. Exclusive to Friends. Join Friends