Past exhibitions

Exhibition
CMAG Student Photography Prize 2026
25 July—23 August

2026 Stimulus Exhibition -  Maria Fernanda Cardoso’s: Spiders of Paradise

Entrants were invited to respond to this visually striking exhibition…

Flutterbry: Worlds Beyond Waste
Exhibition
21 June—16 August
Flutterbry: Worlds Beyond Waste

The exhibition will be visible 24/7, offering a different experience by day and by night, with creative lighting and dramatic shadows bringing the works to life.

Maria Fernanda Cardoso: Spiders of Paradise
Exhibition
29 May—23 August
Maria Fernanda Cardoso: Spiders of Paradise

Maria Fernanda Cardoso is internationally renowned for using unconventional and organic materials to consider nature and its links to culture…

Stitching Stories: 50 Years of Canberra Quilters
Exhibition
14 February—24 May
Stitching Stories: 50 Years of Canberra Quilters
Last week

Canberra Quilters champions quilting as both an evolving art form and a rewarding hobby

Philip Agius: Contemporary Amulets
Exhibition
7 February—30 August
Philip Agius: Contemporary Amulets

Philip Agius is a Canberra-based visual artist working in the medium of contemporary jewellery. He is interested in the healing…

Nicci Haynes: RGB_.v2
Exhibition
6 December 2025—7 June
Nicci Haynes: RGB_.v2

Nicci Haynes’ installations offer alternative modes of viewing that are designed to disrupt expectations of conventional cinema. Haynes films are…

LOVING: Photographs of Men in Love 1850s-1950s
Exhibition
6 December 2025—5 April
LOVING: Photographs of Men in Love 1850s-1950s

When Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell discovered an old photograph of two men in love at an antique store in…

A Loving City: Queerberra Revisited
Exhibition
6 December 2025—5 April
A Loving City: Queerberra Revisited

In 2017, photographer Jane Duong and producer Victoria Firth-Smith created Queerberra to document the lives of Canberra’s LGBTQIA+ community

Wearing Joy: Beautiful Brooches
Exhibition
13 September 2025—1 February
Wearing Joy: Beautiful Brooches

Carla Velting’s brooch collection is colourful, quirky and, according to Carla, just a little bit silly.

Wearing brooches brings joy…

Exhibition
2025 CMAG Secondary School Photography Prize
6 September 2025—26 February

Each year Canberra Museum and Gallery holds a Photography Prize for Canberra’s secondary students, displaying all entries to the public.It’s…

Australia’s Home Front: 1939-1945
Exhibition
9 August 2025—1 February
Australia’s Home Front: 1939-1945

 The story of Australia's Home Front during World War II (1939-1945) is an important one

Maree Clarke: Seeing the Invisible
Exhibition
2 August 2025—23 November 2025
Maree Clarke: Seeing the Invisible

Maree Clarke - Yorta Yorta/Wamba Wamba/Mutti Mutti/Boonwurrung multi-disciplinary artist - presents a group of newly made supersized scale Reed Necklaces…

Dean Cross: Prologue
Exhibition
20 June 2025—29 June 2025
Dean Cross: Prologue

The title Prologue signals a beginning—this new moving image work by Canberra-born, Worimi artist Dean Cross marks the start of…

Taglietti: Life in Design
Exhibition
7 June 2025—3 May
Taglietti: Life in Design
Last week

Discover the world of The Global Architect, Enrico Taglietti (1926–2019), a visionary whose design principles shaped modern Australian architecture and…

Exhibition
Celebrating 50 Years of the Australian Honours System
31 May 2025—31 August 2025

This year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Australian Honours system, which was established in 1975 to acknowledge the outstanding contributions of Australians in diverse and wide-ranging fields. 

Beyond Measure: Expanding the Sky
Exhibition
30 March 2025—21 April 2025
Beyond Measure: Expanding the Sky

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

A Total Work of Art: Sidney Nolan and the Stage
Exhibition
13 March 2025—8 March
A Total Work of Art: Sidney Nolan and the Stage

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.

Current exhibitions