Event
TALK: Captain Faunce - Policing Canberra's Colonial Frontier - Heritage Festival 2025
14 May 2025—14 May 2025

Discover the life of Captain Alured Tasker Faunce, Canberra’s first police magistrate

DROP IN: Taglietti Sketchout - with Urban Sketchers Canberra at Dickson Library
Event
11 May 2025—11 May 2025
DROP IN: Taglietti Sketchout - with Urban Sketchers Canberra at Dickson Library

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 2025—10 May 2025
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 2025—7 May 2025
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 2025
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 2025—30 April 2025
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 2025—24 April 2025
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 2025—11 May 2025
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 2025
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.

Event
KIDS WORKSHOP: Nature Art Journalling at Mugga Mugga Cottage
14 April 2025—14 April 2025

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

CONCERTS: Resonant Spaces at CMAG
Event
4 April 2025—4 April 2025
CONCERTS: Resonant Spaces at CMAG

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

CONCERT: Resonant Spaces with Sophie Hutchings
Event
4 April 2025
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 2025—21 April 2025
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 2025
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

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

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.

Conserving Nolan 50|50
Exhibition
Conserving Nolan 50|50

Gifted to the people of Australia by Sir Sidney Nolan in March 1975, this nationally significant group of 24 early…

IN CONVERSATION: Katherine Bennell Pegg for International Women’s Day
Event
7 March 2025
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.