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The Nolan Collection is an iconic group of paintings from 1945 to 1953 by Sidney Nolan that the artist gifted to the nation in 1974
The Young Nolan Project is a new initiative where an individual school is invited to work on an extended program and present their resulting art to the public
Gifted to the people of Australia by Sir Sidney Nolan in March 1975, this nationally significant group of 24 early…
Sidney Nolan always understood artmaking could transcend the boundaries of a picture frame. Throughout his life, he worked with a wide circle of creative collaborators to produce striking designs for opera, ballet, and theatre.
Celebrate 50 years of Nolan’s cultural legacy with our year-long program of exhibitions, concerts, talks, and a symposium.
50 years…
Discover the world of The Global Architect, Enrico Taglietti (1926–2019), a visionary whose design principles shaped modern Australian architecture and…
The story of Australia's Home Front during World War II (1939-1945) is an important one
Each year Canberra Museum and Gallery holds a Photography Prize for Canberra’s secondary students, displaying all entries to the public.It’s…
Carla Velting’s brooch collection is colourful, quirky and, according to Carla, just a little bit silly.
Wearing brooches brings joy…
Nicci Haynes’ installations offer alternative modes of viewing that are designed to disrupt expectations of conventional cinema. Haynes films are…
When Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell discovered an old photograph of two men in love at an antique store in…
In 2017, photographer Jane Duong and producer Victoria Firth-Smith created Queerberra to document the lives of Canberra’s LGBTQIA+ community
Before television dominated popular media from the early 1970s, colourful magazines were an ever-present fixture on the coffee tables and in canteens and waiting rooms across Australia
The backs of Sidney Nolan’s paintings reveal an intriguing body of historical information