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Face and shoulders of a man against a bright yellow background.

Exhibition

New Horizon

Woman's face in close up.

Exhibition

Bipotaim

Windmill.

Exhibition

Landmarks

Image of hands painted on an oval shield.

Exhibition

Gallery of First Australians

Pink wool dress with white collar.

Exhibition

Australian Journeys

Photo of Jenny Kee.

Exhibition

Eternity

Skin of the Tasmanian Tiger

Exhibition

Old New Land

Steamer boat on the lake.

Things to do

PS Enterprise

Young boy focused on a K-space interactive.

For kids

K-space

Pottery stacked on open collection storage shelves.

Things to do

Open collections

Interactive screen showing a cricket ground.

Interactive

Cricketing Journeys

Embroidered image of Little Red Riding Hood on a gray background.

Animation

Little Red Riding Hood

Three tin badges with images of children.

Coming soon

Forgotten Australians

View of the garden with red poles sticking up out of a map painted on the ground.

Things to do

Guided tours

The Museum's building brightly lit from across the lake taken at night.

Building

Our building

Opening hours

9am-5pm daily. Closed Christmas Day.

Museum shop

10am-5pm weekdays, 9am-5pm weekends/public holidays

The Museum

The National Museum of Australia is a social history museum. We explore the land, nation and people of Australia. We focus on Indigenous histories and cultures, histories of European settlement and our interaction with the environment.

What’s on

December

January

View all events: Museum calendar

Behind the Lines 2011 catalogue

Behind the Lines: The Year's best cartoons 2011

On sale now in our online shop

Support us

Man leaning on a car engine: help us tell the Australian story.

Help us make the Royal Daimler fit for a queen again. Find out how.

Can you help?

Painting with four yellow rectangles on a black background with arrows indicating a pathway.

Do you know anything about the works in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Art Collection?

Konrads Olympic gold

John Konrads and his medal.

Our collection now includes the gold and bronze medals won by swimmer John Konrads in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.

Museum news

What is your story?

From The Storywall 7 December

Storywall stories hanging on red strips of paper.

The National Museum of Australia is the place where we come together to share stories of our unique and distinctive nation, to be part of a national conversation.

In 2011, we are creating a storywall to capture, celebrate and reflect on the experiences of the past year. There will be an onsite storywall at the Museum and we invite you to visit and tell us what you will remember about 2011.

Visit the storywall and share your story

View photos of the onsite storywall on Flickr

Victorian goldfields nugget

From Collections 9 December

Gold nugget

The Museum has recently acquired a gold nugget found in 1957 by a man on his bicycle near Bendigo, Victoria.

On display in Recent acquisitions.

Where is Behind the Lines 2011?

From News 7 December

Behind the Lines 2011

Behind the Lines 2011 is at the Museum of Australian Democracy this year.
Find out more.

Yiwarra Kuju in Sydney

From Travelling exhibitions 7 December

Artist's hand holding paint brush over painting that has a blue background with ochre and white designs.

Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route opens 17 December at the Australian Museum in Sydney.