Event
Panel: Suburban Archaeology
2 May

A panel exploring how Indigenous and historical archaeology assists in the reimagining of the ACT's heritage, developing greater understanding and protection

The World Turns Modern
Exhibition
9 May—20 June
The World Turns Modern

From the early twentieth century, Australian artists responded to the international movement towards Modernism and Art Deco.

Reel Classics: Jour de Fete (1949)
Event
9 May
Reel Classics: Jour de Fete (1949)

Reel McCoy Film Society presents bi-monthly film screenings of classic cinema.

THE MASS
Exhibition
28 February—6 June
THE MASS

LENDON/BEER’s THE MASS is the latest collaborative work by Emma Beer and Nigel Lendon

In Conversation: The Women’s Experience
Event
14 May
In Conversation: The Women’s Experience

The women in the Jennings Germans story were integral to the success of their partner’s contribution in a new country

NFSA Events: The Music of Laurel and Hardy by LeRoy Shield
Event
15 May
NFSA Events: The Music of Laurel and Hardy by LeRoy Shield

Friends of the National Film and Sound Archive presents stories that celebrate film

Reel Classics: Patton (1970)
Event
16 May
Reel Classics: Patton (1970)

Reel McCoy Film Society presents bi-monthly film screenings of classic cinema

Guest Speaker: Dr Damian Smith on Nolan’s photography
Event
28 May
Guest Speaker: Dr Damian Smith on Nolan’s photography

Nolan’s documented admiration for Aboriginal Australians began in 1947 while travelling in Queensland

Place: A travelling exhibition of artists' books
Exhibition
21 March—4 July
Place: A travelling exhibition of artists' books

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

Event
Reel Classics: Niagara (1953) and Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
30 May

Reel McCoy Film Society presents bi-monthly film screenings of classic cinema.

Building a Life: The Jennings Germans story
Exhibition
15 February—18 July
Building a Life: The Jennings Germans story

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.

The Nolan Collection
Exhibition
The Nolan Collection

The Nolan Collection is an iconic group of paintings from 1945 to 1953 by Sidney Nolan that the artist gifted to the nation in 1974

Seeing Canberra
Exhibition
7 March—12 September
Seeing Canberra

As a city initiated as an imagined capital for the new Australian nation, Canberra has been a place that quickly invited visual representation