National Library of Australia (NLA)

Home to the Treasures Gallery and Exhibition Gallery.

The Treasures Gallery highlights the extraordinary holdings of the National Library of Australia. From maps and rare books to manuscripts, photographs, oil paintings and watercolours, this is where you will find many of the Library’s most unexpected and unique items. Be intrigued, surprised, challenged and amazed by the stories these treasures tell.

National Library of Australia (NLA)

Parkes Place Canberra ACT 2600

02 6262 1111

www.nla.gov.au

Daily
9am - 5pm

Closed Good Friday and Christmas Day

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It is unexpected and oddly refreshing to see Andy Warhol in a regional Australian art gallery

Until 2026, Wanneroo Regional Art Gallery will be showing 53 original artworks by one of the most famous artists of the 20th century: Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol ICONS includes famous works such as Elvis (1963), Campbell’s Soup Cans (1968) and Marilyn (1967).

Christina Chau

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First Nations artists share their sun stories

For the 24th Biennale of Sydney, Paris-based Fondation Cartier has commissioned 14 new works by Indigenous artists across the globe, curated by renowned Kuku Yalanji artist, Tony Albert.

Neha Kale

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The 10 new (and reopening) art spaces you need to know about

From revamped industrial sites to brand new spaces in Sydney, to openings in Adelaide, Melbourne, Cottesloe and Darwin—across Australia there’s a flurry of new and reopening gallery activity.

Art Guide Australia

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The apocalypse as imagination and resilience: Must-sees at the 24th Biennale of Sydney

This year’s Biennale of Sydney centres the “profound changes of the 21st century” from migration to diaspora to climate change—and how communities show perpetual resilience. From delicate kites to images of nuclear war, here’s our round up of what you can’t miss.

Art Guide Editors

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The rise of atmospheric painter Clarice Beckett

Working en plein air, Clarice Beckett’s tonalist paintings capture not only the likeness of a place, but how it felt to be there. Revisit our preview of the historical artist, who is now showing at Cairns Art Gallery with work from the 1920s and 30s.

Briony Downes

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A rising in the east explores Japanese arts and disability

A collaboration between Perth Festival, DADAA gallery and studio, and four Japanese arts and disability organisations has resulted in A rising in the east—an exhibition that asks what artists with disabilities can achieve when offered the resources.

National Library of Australia (NLA)

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