Access to collections is crucial for communities and researchers to ensure historical evidence is preserved and available to deepen our understanding of our past.
The significance of items included on the UNESCO Memory of the World Australian Register list gives us insight into our history and heritage.
Join University Archivist, Maggie Shapley, for an exclusive opportunity to tour the repository situated over the Parkes Way tunnel
Join us for an afternoon of structured workshops, led by local artist Jacqueline Bradley
Join Dale Middleby, CMAG’s Senior Curator, Social History and Ros Russell, Chair, UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Committee for a conversation about the exhibition, Memory of the World in Canberra
Transport yourself to the Pacific Islands and remote regions of Australia, surrounded by the sounds of local language conveyed via a virtual reality experience
Discover the rich documentary heritage held in Canberra’s premier cultural institutions and the contribution made to the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register by Canberra's librarians, archivists, curators and conservators.
To write an informed history we need to preserve the records of the past.