Event
DROP IN: Taglietti Sketchout - with Urban Sketchers Canberra at Dickson Library
11 May—11 May

Join Urban Sketchers Canberra for a special sketchout event at the iconic Dickson Library, designed by renowned Italian-Australian architect Enrico Taglietti.

CMAG Open Day
Event
10 May—10 May
CMAG Open Day

Join us for CMAG's Open Day and Celebrate 50 Years of the Sidney Nolan Collection!

TALK: War, Art and the Love Story Behind Roland Wakelin’s Canberra - Heritage Festival 2025
Event
7 May—7 May
TALK: War, Art and the Love Story Behind Roland Wakelin’s Canberra - Heritage Festival 2025

Join Senior Curator Virginia Rigney to uncover the wartime love story behind Roland Wakelin’s serene depiction of the Canberra Methodist Church in Reid.

ACT Galleries, Museums and Heritage Education Showcase
Event
1 May
ACT Galleries, Museums and Heritage Education Showcase

ACT Galleries, Museums and Heritage have a range of education programs designed to engage students in authentic, hands on learning…

TALK: Chile to Lanyon - Migration Connections and Earthen Constructions - Heritage Festival 2025
Event
30 April—30 April
TALK: Chile to Lanyon - Migration Connections and Earthen Constructions - Heritage Festival 2025

In the 1860s, two Chilean men started working for the Cunningham family at Lanyon Homestead. Who were they and why did they travel to Canberra?

KIDS WORKSHOP: Create a Ceramic Coral Reef
Event
23 April—24 April
KIDS WORKSHOP: Create a Ceramic Coral Reef
Additional Session Added

Dive into artmaking these school holidays and create a ceramic coral reef in the CMAG Studio!

Heritage Festival at CMAG 2025
Event
18 April—11 May
Heritage Festival at CMAG 2025

Join us as we open our doors to the past for the 2025 ACT Heritage Festival. From garden tours to…

KIDS WORKSHOP: Art in Action - Exploring Stage Design
Event
16 April
KIDS WORKSHOP: Art in Action - Exploring Stage Design

For aspiring young performers and stage designers! Get inspired by the stage and costume designs by Sidney Nolan and create your own unique set design.

KIDS WORKSHOP: Nature Art Journalling at Mugga Mugga Cottage
Event
14 April—14 April
KIDS WORKSHOP: Nature Art Journalling at Mugga Mugga Cottage

Enjoy taking inspiration from nature and create your own nature art journal these school holidays.

Event
CONCERTS: Resonant Spaces at CMAG
4 April—4 April

A solo piano concert series featuring ARIA Award–winning artists David Bridie and Sophie Hutchings

CONCERT: Resonant Spaces with Sophie Hutchings
Event
4 April
CONCERT: Resonant Spaces with Sophie Hutchings

Canberra Museum + Gallery presents Resonant Spaces, a unique solo piano concert series celebrating the intersection of music and visual art

Beyond Measure: Expanding the Sky
Exhibition
30 March—21 April
Beyond Measure: Expanding the Sky

Broaden your understanding and perceptions of what we considered as ‘outer space’

ARTISTS TALK: Beyond Measure and Perspectives of Outer Space
Event
29 March
ARTISTS TALK: Beyond Measure and Perspectives of Outer Space

Join curator Dr Anna Madeleine Raupach for a chat with artists about the Beyond Measure exhibition

IN CONVERSATION: Katherine Bennell Pegg for International Women’s Day
Event
7 March
IN CONVERSATION: Katherine Bennell Pegg for International Women’s Day

This International Women's Day, we're celebrating women in STEM with a very special in-conversation event with Katherine Bennell-Pegg, the first person qualified as an astronaut under the Australian flag.

Event
FLOOR TALK: Making a Creative Life with Hiroe Swen
19 February
Booked out

Join Hiroe Swen for a floor talk about her exhibition, Hiroe and Cornel Swen: Making a Creative Life.

Family Sanctuary at National Multicultural Festival
Event
8 February—9 February
Family Sanctuary at National Multicultural Festival

Have fun with free children’s activities at the CMAG and celebrate Canberra’s cultural diversity.

FILM SCREENING: For The Term of His Natural Life (Reconstructed, 4K)
Event
1 February 2025
FILM SCREENING: For The Term of His Natural Life (Reconstructed, 4K)

Australia’s most famous silent film, lost for decades and painstakingly reconstructed from incomplete versions and NFSA stills.