Sunday 13 June 2021 – Monday 13 June 2022
We’re taking daily bookings as part of our COVID-19 Safety Plan. This is to make sure you have a safe and memorable visit without things getting too squishy.
Bookings available
The collection display includes a wide selection of portraits that tell extraordinary stories of encounter, exploration, independence, individuality and achievement in Australia.
In these uncertain times, with physical gatherings restricted, we can all still recall major events such as the bogong moth migration, and remain connected to each other through nature.
Take a 30 minute tour of the Portrait Gallery exploring the collection and the building.
Bookings available
Harriet Schwarzrock’s new work explores notions of emotional processes and their physical manifestations.
Is love all you really need? If so, what kind of love? Join us for an exhilarating look at love in all its guises – from lust and longing, drama and devotion, to seduction and scandal.
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Reconnect and reflect with our new major exhibition, Australian Love Stories (in real life!) as we explore love, affection and connection in all its guises.
Bookings required
Become an adventurer and make a gadget to help you on your journey around the Gallery! Explore the portraits on display through close looking and creative activity.
To celebrate our Australian Love Stories exhibition, we’re making tokens of affection! Make pebble portraits of the special people in your life.
Grab a front row seat and discover the incredible talents and fascinating stories behind some of the youngest and brightest stars in the National Portrait Gallery collection.
Bookings required
Canberra’s company of dancing elders, GOLD, will wow you with routines old and new.
Join us from wherever you are to celebrate and reminisce with artist William Yang as he reflects on his joyous photographs of Australia's LGBTIQ+ community.
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Join us in the Gallery to celebrate and reminisce with artist William Yang as he reflects on his joyous photographs of Australia’s LGBTIQ+ community and Mardi Gras from 1982 to 2018.
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Relationships affect us, change us, and leave their mark on our skin and in our psyche. Join us as we trace roads travelled, places visited and time passing.
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Little faces is for babies and toddlers (with their grown up) to play, sing and have fun discovering a portrait together.
Bookings requiredLittle faces is for babies and toddlers (with their grown up) to play, sing and have fun discovering a portrait together.
Bookings requiredLittle faces is for babies and toddlers (with their grown up) to play, sing and have fun discovering a portrait together.
Bookings required
Love big and small. Free activities inspired by the exhibition Australian Love Stories for families to enjoy together.
Join us for an exhilarating look at love in all its guises.
Bookings required
What do we call a portrait within a portrait? A portrait portrait? Portrait²? Portraitception? Join us as we peer at works within works within the collection!
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To celebrate our Australian Love Stories exhibition, we’re making tokens of affection! Make pebble portraits of the special people in your life or even somewhere you treasure
Bookings required
To celebrate our Australian Love Stories exhibition, we’re making tokens of affection! Make pebble portraits of the special people in your life or even somewhere you treasure.
Bookings required
Listen in and feel the love with our tour for visitors who are blind or have low vision.
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Explore the main collection before our usual opening hours. We welcome anyone of any age who would benefit from a more relaxed gallery experience.
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Brrrrr, it is getting cold outside! Get cosy and join us in the Gallery to listen to the story of Can bears ski? by Raymond Antrobus and then create your own visual response.
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Brrrrr, it is getting cold outside! Can’t come to us? Snuggle inside at home in your warmest knits and listen to the story of Can bears ski? by Raymond Antrobus and then create your own visual response.
Bookings required
Draw while listening to nonbinarycode – two unique humans who grew up on a diet of grunge, punk and stadium rock.
Get your druid on as the I Progetti Chamber Choir invites you to share in this programme of selected works celebrating the Winter Solstice.
Celebrate our First Nations Identity for NAIDOC with the National Portrait Gallery collection from the comfort of your own home.
Bookings required
In Amulet Body, artist WeiZen Ho enacts a communal ritual in the Gallery. Join her to create a collaborative work of actions and reflections which interpret the love language of physical touch, ultimately reminding us of our interconnectedness.
Join us for a visit to the hot-glass studio of artist Harriet Schwarzrock in Queanbeyan, NSW.
Bookings requiredIn Amulet Body, artist WeiZen Ho enacts a communal ritual in the Gallery. Join her to create a collaborative work of actions and reflections which interpret the love language of physical touch, ultimately reminding us of our interconnectedness.
Little Faces is for babies and toddlers (with their grown up) to play, sing and have fun discovering a portrait together.
Bookings required
That’s a different name? Yep! Acknowledging how extraordinary 2020 has been, we've decided to mix it up a little and title the exhibition, ‘Living Memory: National Photographic Portrait Prize’.
Bookings requiredLittle Faces is for babies and toddlers (with their grown up) to play, sing and have fun discovering a portrait together.
Bookings required
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