What&#039;s On in Canberra

Piinpi: Contemporary Indigenous Fashion

Democracy. Are You In?

PlayUP: The Right to Have an Opinion and Be Heard

onetoeight: Australia’s first prime ministers

Happy and Glorious

Life Through the Lens - Photographic Display at the NFSA

The Amazing Face

Essence of Cloud

Maker meetup

Milky Way Photography Workshop with Ari Rex

Yours Faithfully

Endeavour Voyage: The Untold Stories of Cook and the First Australians

Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now

Truth, Power and a Free Press

Belonging: Stories of Australian Art

This is my place

Seeing Canberra

Crafting Canberra

Behind the Lines 2020: The year in political cartoons

Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London

Peril in the Parliament

Australian Love Stories

Canberra and Region Heritage Festival

19 Dec 2020 - 31 Dec 2021

Collection Highlights Tour

Join the National Portrait Gallery for a free 30 minute guided tour touching on aspects of the building and some of the collection. Bookings essential, limited...

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

Piinpi: Contemporary Indigenous Fashion

20 Feb - 8 Aug 2021

This stunning exhibition shines a light on Australia's leading First Nations creatives and a design movement that is fast becoming a national fashion phenomenon....

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Democracy. Are You In?

Democracy. Are You In? is a contemporary exhibition that aims to encourage visitors to recognise that our freedoms and our way of life are built on the foundation...

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PlayUP: The Right to Have an Opinion and Be Heard

PlayUP is the Museum of Australian Democracy's imaginative family space with activities to educate, excite and challenge young minds. With listening pods and a...

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onetoeight: Australia’s first prime ministers

Visually arresting, humorous and thoughtful, Canberra-based artist Alison Alder reinterprets and reinvigorates portraits of the first eight prime ministers in onetoeight,...

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Happy and Glorious

The Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD) at Old Parliament House presents Happy and Glorious - an exhibition dedicated to The Queen’s Visit in 1954. Old Parliament...

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Life Through the Lens - Photographic Display at the NFSA

1 Aug 2020 - 30 Jun 2021

This photographic display highlights just a few of the 3,000 Commonwealth documentaries and educational short films in the Film Australia Collection, which recorded...

Community EventExhibition and Shows

The Amazing Face

4 Jan - 31 Dec 2021

The National Portrait Gallery has a free online class to learn the language of portraiture. Over 14 modules, iconic portraits from the NPG Collection are highlighted,...

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Essence of Cloud

30 Mar - 22 May 2021

Essence of Cloud is a multi-faceted solo exhibition featuring the work of glass artist Mark Eliott. This exhibition will comprise mainly of Glass objects but also...

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Maker meetup

8 Oct 2019 - 29 Sep 2021

Meet interesting people in Canberra’s Maker community and see the cool stuff people are working on. The projects range from a laser-cut trebuchet, 3D printed game...

Community Event

Milky Way Photography Workshop with Ari Rex

23 May 2020 - 6 Nov 2021

Take your night sky photography to the next level. Learn how to capture stunning Milky Way nightscapes. Expert instruction is given by award-winning photographer...

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

Yours Faithfully

1 Oct 2020 - 30 Apr 2021

Yours faithfully is an interactive exhibition that invites you to rediscover the art of letter writing. In Yours Faithfully, you can use the Museum of Australian...

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Endeavour Voyage: The Untold Stories of Cook and the First Australians

4 Jun 2020 - 26 Apr 2021

This stunning exhibition takes you on a journey, travelling on board the ship with Cook and for the first time hearing the stories from those on the shore. In...

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Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now

15 Feb - 4 Jul 2021

Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now showcases art made by women. It brings together more than 300 works, drawn from the Gallery’s collection and...

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Truth, Power and a Free Press

2 Jul 2020 - 31 Dec 2021

Truth, Power and a Free press is a compelling exhibition that explores the relationship between trusted media sources and a healthy democracy. Iconic objects from...

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Belonging: Stories of Australian Art

3 Jul 2020 - 30 Jun 2021

This major collection presentation recasts the story of nineteenth-century Australian art. Informed by the many voices of Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultures...

Exhibition and Shows

19 Sep 2020 - 11 Jul 2021

This is my place

After months spent in isolation at home, the National Portrait Gallery invites you to take a fresh and intimate focus on the places that define who we are - our...

Exhibition and Shows

26 Oct 2020 - 17 Jul 2021

Seeing Canberra

As a city initiated as an imagined capital for the new Australian nation, Canberra has been a place that quickly invited visual representation. As it developed,...

Exhibition and Shows

27 Oct 2020 - 26 Jun 2021

Crafting Canberra

Bringing together works of art and social history objects from the Canberra Museum and Gallery collection, Crafting Canberra explores how the Canberra community...

Exhibition and Shows

26 Nov 2020 - 15 Nov 2021

Behind the Lines 2020: The year in political cartoons

Behind the Lines presents the best political cartoons from 2020, including digital cartoons for the first time. With the fitting theme, ‘A dog’s breakfast’,...

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Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London

5 Mar - 14 Jun 2021

Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London draws exclusively from one of the greatest collections of European paintings in the world....

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Peril in the Parliament

11 Feb - 30 Apr 2021

A brand new Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD) experience for groups – part whodunit, part riddle room at Old Parliament House after dark! Located in the House...

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Australian Love Stories

20 Mar - 1 Aug 2021

Family, friends, fanatics and foes (and everything in between!). Reconnect and reflect with a new major exhibition, Australian Love Stories (in real life!) and...

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