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

Exhibitions

Fit to Print: Defining Moments from the Fairfax Photo Archive

Selected by Mike Bowers

27 Feb - 20 Jul

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The Ramsay Art Prize takes the temperature of contemporary art

Every two years, the Ramsay Art Prize opens to Australian artists under 40 working in any medium. Presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia and supported in perpetuity by the James & Diana Ramsay foundation, the prize seeks to spotlight contemporary artists at a formative moment in their careers.

Walter Marsh

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Danie Mellor contemplates history and memory

Marru translates to “becoming visible” in Danie Mellor’s ancestral Dyirbal language (of Far North Queensland). In his current exhibition Danie Mellor: marru | the unseen visible at Queensland Art Gallery, the title reflects the work’s gentle ruminations on the complexities of the history of colonisation entwined with personal memories.

Barnaby Smith

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Cartographies of the heart

Five Acts of Love, a new exhibition at ACCA, maps the space in which memory, intimacy and resistance intersect.

Tahmina Maskinyar

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Flying high at the TarraWarra Biennial

Taking an expanded approach to Indigenous curatorial practice, the ninth TarraWarra Biennial features work responding to themes of regeneration, restoring spirit, and disrupting colonial space. Three artists discuss their contributions.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

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Max Mueller paints propulsively

Hobart-based Max Mueller’s In the Sticks exhibition at Handmark Gallery features oil-on-linen works that show tranquil scenes of Tasmania, musing on how nature is managed and maintained in a context of civilisation and curation.

Barnaby Smith

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Generation, making and exchange in Queer Territory

In Queer Territory at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, curator Maurice O’Riordan has drawn together diverse works from the 1980s to the present day to present a snapshot of queer practice in the Territory.

National Library of Australia (NLA)

National Library of Australia (NLA)

Exhibitions