Wendy Whitham received her first fan as a child from her aunt and uncle after they returned from a trip overseas, but it wasn’t until decades later that she started collecting fans herself

The fires that swept through the suburbs of Canberra in 2003 were the first serious threat experienced in the history of the city

Calling all creative kids to be part of a workshop exploring artists books in the PLACE exhibition

Just what is it that made 19th century magic lantern slides so enchanting, magic and powerful? Watch a live demonstration…

For Sidney Nolan, his boyhood home of the Melbourne bayside suburb of St Kilda was ‘My kitsch heaven’

Flow Line is a term used in the oil industry that describes the behaviour of liquid forces as they move together

Calling all creative kids to be part of a practical workshop exploring the work of Sidney Nolan

Bringing together works of art, and social history objects from the CMAG collection, Crafting Canberra explores how the Canberra community…

Dissonance is about time: our relatively brief time and geological or ‘deep’ time.
Until recently, both existed independently. Both have…

Calling all creative kids to be part of a practical workshop exploring The World Turns Modern exhibition

In the early 1950s, a group of 150 young German men left the security of their homeland and the comfort of their families to travel halfway around the world to a small city called Canberra.

Artists’ books are part of most artists’ vocabulary, either as drawings bound together, illustrated diaries or a response to a place, time, political or historical event, or personal emotion

The void is a multifaceted concept, not simply of presence and absence, but a place that exists between distinct worldviews, is occupied by meaning and is imbued with personal, historical and ancestral significance

Celebrate Canberra Day at CMAG with one of our city's longest residents, Dawn Waterhouse