Coming to visit? Ticketed entry is in place to safely manage your visit so please book ahead. Need to cancel or rejig? Email bookings@npg.gov.au
Thursday 8 April 2021 – Saturday 8 April 2023
Explore the collection from the comfort of you loungeroom. Join us for free, interactive, virtual collection tours. Examine portraits in depth with Gallery Educators delivered via Zoom, and chat, comment and ask questions just like the IRL experience. Videos of selected previous events are available too.
Hello cool cats! Join us as we make a beeline for the feline and explore works featuring furry faces (and their human friends/slaves).
Bookings requiredFollow the wind and desert sands into the wilderness. Can’t come to us? Join us online for a reading of Jeannie Baker’s The story of Rosy Dock and then create your own visual response with items at home.
Bookings requiredTo 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 requiredCelebrate the life, love and creative work of one of Australia’s artistic power couples in our Australian Love Stories exhibition: Rosemary Madigan and Robert Klippel.
Bookings requiredMirror as a noun: any reflecting surface. Person as a mirror... let’s reflect on that! Join us as we look into the faces of others who might show us something about ourselves.
Bookings requiredJoin us on a journey that talks to our national identity in times of war.
Bookings requiredJoin curators Joanna Gilmour & Sandra Bruce for a sneak peek at our exciting new exhibition.
Bookings requiredJoin artist Ellis Hutch from wherever you are for a hands-on workshop with a nod to the ancient art of relief carving.
Bookings requiredTo 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.
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