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
Friday 9 April 2021 – Sunday 9 April 2023
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 availableThe 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 availableHarriet 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.
Bookings availableReconnect 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 requiredTo celebrate our Australian Love Stories exhibition, we’re making tokens of affection! Make pebble portraits of the special people in your life.
Be inspired by our Australian Love Stories exhibition and fold your own origami pocket heart. Use it to keep a treasure in, make some more at home and decorate your room, or write someone you love a note and pop it inside!
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.
Rush in and slow down for Slow Art Day. This global event has a simple mission: help more people discover the joy of looking at and loving art.
Bookings requiredHello 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. Join us in the Gallery to listen to The story of Rosy Dock by Jeannie Baker and then create your own visual response.
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 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 requiredExplore the main collection before our usual opening hours. We welcome anyone of any age who would benefit from a more relaxed gallery experience.
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 requiredSpooky Men’s Chorale singing words of affirmation.
Bookings requiredJoin artist Ellis Hutch in the Gallery for a hands-on workshop with a nod to the ancient art of relief carving.
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 requiredRomance through dance! Ausdance ACT will be in the Gallery during Australian Dance Week to enhance your Australian Love Stories exhibition experience with pop-up performances that fill our spaces (and hearts) in surprising and delightful ways.
Draw while listening to music. Be swept away in the moment and let colour become your instruments, line become your melody and create your own visual composition.
Listen in and feel the love with our tour for visitors who are blind or have low vision.
Bookings requiredJoin comedian Chris Ryan as she hosts a night of ‘speed dating’ with a twist!
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 requiredTo celebrate Reconciliation Week, our highlights tours will focus on some remarkable, resilient and inspirational Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the collection.
Bookings availableWe are absolutely thrilled to announce that Gill Hicks AM MBE will be our guest speaker for the Circle of Friends Autumn Dinner this year.
Bookings requiredLittle faces is for babies and toddlers (with their grown up) to play, sing and have fun discovering a portrait together.
Bookings requiredJoin Wuilli Wuilli woman Lisa Fuller in the Gallery as she explores slow looking and how art can open up your writing.
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 requiredLittle faces is for babies and toddlers (with their grown up) to play, sing and have fun discovering a portrait together.
Bookings requiredEmbrace your creativity and make a thing of joy for them with craft-based designer Kitiya Palaskas.
Bookings requiredJoin us for an exhilarating look at love in all its guises.
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 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 requiredPerformance artist Weizen Ho interprets the love language of physical touch.
Bookings requiredThat’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’.
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