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Friday 9 April 2021 – Sunday 9 April 2023
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.
To celebrate our Australian Love Stories exhibition, we’re making tokens of affection! Make pebble portraits of the special people in your life.
Follow 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 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 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 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.
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