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Unseen Untold: Our Curious Collection
A new exhibition showcasing never-before-seen objects from the Sydney Jewish Museum archives.
Help save Australia's frogs with your mobile phone
Australia’s first national frog count is underway and everyone can join in, to help save one of the most threatened groups of animals on Earth.
Share your family albums
Sydney Living Museums are currently in the process of developing an exhibition with photomedia artist Anne Zahalka for the Museum of Sydney.
Share fascinating tales at the Justice & Police Museum
Have you got an interest in crime & punishment and a desire to share fascinating & frightful stories with the public?
NSW Grandparents Day - Photo Competiton
Win a photography workshop at the Australian Centre of Photography
Da Vinci Machines Exhibition
Visitors to the Riverina can delve into the mind of the master of innovation, Leonardo Da Vinci, at the Da Vinci Machines Exhibition at Temora Aviation Museum.
The Art Documentary - Call out for participants
Want to star in a new arts documentary?
Creative country: 98% of Australians engage with the arts
The arts play a role in the lives of 98% of the Australian population, according to a new Australia Council survey.
Dream Machines
Bringing together artists whose practice exploits the harmony that exists between science, technology, engineering, maths and art.
Jervis Bay Maritime Museum launches visitor app
The new app helps visitors explore objects and displays in the museum's collection.
Making a Tax deductible donation
So you have found your favourite museum or gallery and you want to give them a donation.
Bayanihan Philippine Art Project
Bayanihan Philippine Art Project presents contemporary Filipino art across Sydney
Become a Volunteer with Sydney Living Museums
Do you love interacting with people? Have you got a passion for museums and a desire to help share historic places with the public?
The Battle of Sydney Harbour
Six Australian and Japanese artists have been invited by Mosman Art Gallery to interpret the remarkable story of when three Japanese midget submarines launched a brazen strike on Sydney.
Spirit of Anzac Centenary Experience
The largest First World War travelling exhibition to visit Sydney.
Indigenous artists shine in Nganampa Kililpil: Our Stars
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre's ambitious exhibition is the first major survey of art from Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunyjatjara Lands.
Dog made Assistant Director at the Maritime Museum
Meet Bailey the Border Collie who has been recruited permanently to help protect the Australian National Maritime Museum exhibits from seagulls.
A giant T Rex gifted to the Australian Museum
A life-size dinosaur model is coming to Australia, and it's not pretty.
Planting Dreams: Shaping Australian Gardens
To mark the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, the State Library of NSW is staging two fascinating exhibitions that showcase the rich story of gardens and garden‐making in Australia
Gould League of Bird Lovers
Can you help solve the missing years of the NSW Gould League of Bird Lovers badges?
Lighting spotfires under a palace of colonial power
Garden Palace, which burned to the ground in 1882, was a monument to empire's glory. Indigenous artist Jonathan Jones is now working on an epic exhibition that will explore this historical epoch from an Aboriginal perspective.
Narromine Aviation Museum up sizes
The Narromine Aviation Museum has just opened a new extension effectively tripling the space available for exhibitions.
Auction Action at Firstdraft
Artworks donated by alumni & supporters go under the hammer.
Telling Cowra’s Story
Cowra has fascinating history, from the days of steam trains to the largest Prisoner Of War breakout in modern military history.
NSW Lancers Memorial Museum launch restored WW2 Matilda Tank
20,000 volunteer hours and five years of difficult restoration has now reached completion.
Art changes lives
Show your support and stand up for Australian arts!
What's in a Biennale?
Where to go and what to see.
Wollongong goes digital
Museums in the Illawarra launch a collaborative heritage website.
Confused about collecting?
We'll talk you through where collections come from and what they mean today.
Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries
Everyone loves a good crime story.
Heritage Week in the swing of things
Did you know its Australian Heritage Week?
Imagine a city
An exploration of the remarkable impact and legacy of the NSW Government Architect’s Office.
A night at the museum anyone?
Are you brave enough to spent the night?
Red Poppies and White Waratahs
An insight into Her War.
Even the dots are sacred: buying Aboriginal art ethically
A must read if you are in the market for Indigenous art.
Five things that make Kempsey Museum kid cool
According to a seven year old city-slicker.
Happy 100th birthday Gumnut Babies!
May Gibb's timeless stories come to life.
At Home: Mervyn Bishop
A snapshot of the Brewarrina boy and acclaimed press photographer.
Error Strategy
A new residency and project at Bilpin exploring the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area.
Oscar tells it his way
An 11 yr old's verdict on Griffith Pioneer Park Museum.
What can be seen by lantern light?
M&G's Inspector Clue-so investigates.
Sips & Sounds
Friday nights at Penrith Regional Gallery.
Toy Story: before Woody and Buzz
Bliss in the Blue Mountains for all ages.
Silent film wins
And Lake Macquarie Heritage Centre shares the spotlight.
Indigenous military histories published
Courtesy of Dr Chris Clark and lots of hard work.
Let us Inspire you
Celebrating NSW cultural vibrancy.
Interview with Robert Heather
New England Regional Art Museum's new director talks.
And the winner is …
Winner of the 2015 Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize announced.
Museums matter
Our research proves it.
At Home: Djon Mundine
The environmental message behind Mundine's Another Country.
People Like Us
NETS Australia tour opens at UNSW Galleries.
Collecting Chinese histories
Help the Orange district connect with their Chinese heritage.
The nature of fashion
See how nature influences fashion design.
At Home: Badger Bates
A rich and loving childhood had a lasting impression on Badger Bates and his art.
A day at the fair
The Sydney Contemporary verdict is in.
Hanging on a vision
Two quite different shows to send our brains spinning.
Olga’s survivor story
Survivor histories – a finite and precious resource.
Siteworks at Bundanon
A once a year event: site-specific, contemporary art free-for-all!
At Home: Uncle Laddie Timbery
Meet the affable and enthusiastic Dharawal and Yuin Elder at the Jervis Bay Maritime Museum.
At Home artist: Bronwyn Bancroft
Riverstones and Ramifications at Blacktown.
Picking an Archibald winner
Gallerina’s quest to guess this year's winner.
What's in a war-time quilt?
The Annette Gero Collection on show at Manly.
Bailed Up!
Mischief, myth and a marvellous story.
More Marina magic
Young people engage with performance art.
Rock ‘n’ Roll treasure hunt at MAAS
There's something for everyone in a basement!
Turning Digital: delights, dangers and drama
Digitisation report for the GLAM sector.
Art + Space: Groom and Monks
More artist profiles for ArtChat at Freda's.
At Home: The Blacktown Native Institution
Returning to site to change history.
Byron Bay: Classic splendour
Coming north for Splendour in the Grass?
The Art of Food
Our appetite for art and food is growing.
Strange embraces
The Blue Mountains are gripped by a Strange Embrace.
Fashionable history
Visit Paris in Albury for a taste of stunning 60s fashion.
Ribbons of reflection: memorials and mementos
Sydney's Hyde Park ANZAC memorials.
Archies for the mind
The inner workings of portraiture on our brains.
The other Victoria's Secret: Underwear's hidden history
Practicalities and attitudes towards covering our pink bits.
What's an Emerging Artist?
Examining the relationship between ARIs and artists.
Tony Albert in conversation
What's behind this new Indigenous public monument.
Sculpture in the mountains
Katoomba - a town of mists and mellow fruitfulness ... and sculpture!
Seeing is not what it seems
The artist as neuroscientist.
Winning hearts and minds
The answer is education.
At Home: Robert Campbell Jnr
Retrospective explores segregation, dispossession and disempowerment.
Pulp Confidential
Delve into the racy world of pulp.
A day in the life… of a country curator
Behind the allure of an ‘arts’ career.
Artspace: working in a new space
Ever changing, ever challenging.
Trumpet calls: Anzac at Albury
More than just military history.
Commemorating 100 years
Museums and galleries reflect on WWI.
Major acquisition for Mosman Art Gallery
John Olsen's painting a wonderful addition to Balnaves Gift.
City of Plenty
Food and art meet for a good cause.
At Home: Mickey of Ulladulla
An artist's insight into aboriginal cultural survival.
Conflict & Compassion
Our picks from the National Trust Heritage Festival.
Shaun Gladwell and his doppelgängers
Soak up Shaun Gladwell's most recent work and survey exhibition.
Future Feminist Archive
Exploring feminism’s role in contemporary art
Rudie nudie tours
Experience the James Turrell retrospective in its purest form.
Destination
An installation by Talulah Vane at Woodford Academy.
The Last Supper for kids
Kids make their own supper at Hawkesbury.
Art Month picks
Art Month is on!
At Home: Genevieve Grieves
Storytelling for social change.
Busy busy, birthday busy
Nothing but good news!
The new Orange Regional Museum will transform the region
So much more than bricks and mortar.
The bright white walls of Chalk Horse
The striking works of André Hemer and Elliott Bryce Foulkes.
Dear Sylvia
An exhibition for Plath devotees and lovers of photography.
Australian Museum facelift
After 125 years, the museum gets a new, spectacular entrance.
Broken Hill makes the cut
What does it take to become the first heritage listed city?
An hour in a Sydney time capsule
Over 170 years of history located in one place.
Setting the record straight
Indigenous artists take on history.
LEGO®, LEGO® everywhere
Will pulling power of LEGO® ever let up?
Susi Muddiman named in Australia Day honours list
Accolades for regional gallery Director continue.
Country context
Country Curator talks us through the finer points of moving regional.
World War One across Australia
2015 is the year to remember WWI.
Living in the land of landscape
Australian landscape comes of age.
Child's play
Keeping kids busy these school holidays.
Christmas celebrations!
Celebrate the silly season with a visit to Santa, a decoration workshop or cheerful Christmas carol event.
The might of a military museum
Not just stuff about war.
Uncle Ossie Cruse recognised at IMAGinE
A life devoted to the Aboriginal people of South East NSW.
Sydney's sandstone real estate
See the city with more attentive eyes at Sydney Open.
Festive fever
Start the festive season in regional NSW.
Corroboree Sydney
Initiated and delivered by Indigenous people, this is one action packed festival!
What lies beneath
Discover archaeological ruins under the high-rises of inner-city Sydney.
The Graduate
Forget the champagne and canapés, this is what’s hot in town.
Bill: the life of William Dobell
Old story, new book. Great read either way.
At Home: Warwick Keen and Burra Bee Dee
Burra Bee Dee and the story of Mary Jane Cain.
Celebrating IMAGinE award winners!
Cultural 'best and fairest' industry awards announced.
Another wet museum dries out
Gunyah Green Museum is on dry land!
Two for Nicole Foreshew
Foreshew gets Aboriginal Art Prize and more.
For whom the Bell tolls …
For those who like their art head on.
Creepy Quarantine
Explore this allegedly haunted heritage site.
Bowraville: The Tardis and beyond
Time travel à la Bowraville.
Marching to a different drum: Stars + Stripes
Contemporary American Art goes regional.
Strange specimens and creepy critters: The art of taxidermy
The skin and bones of taxidermy.
After the flood
After five years Coffs Harbour Regional Museum is back.
I'll have art with that, thank you
Sumptuous surrounds, delicious food and art.
At Home: Frances and the island
The story behind a kidney-bean shaped island.
Remember the milk bar?
The simplest of service and the best of times.
Big things at Bathurst!
Look what's underground in Bathurst!
In defence of little museums
No blockbuster exhibitions but real stories and real people.
More on in History Week
Still a bit of History Week left.
Arthur Boyd: Agony and Ecstasy
NGA's programs explore the artist's work.
The Balnaves Gift
Mosman's collection is a gift for the community.
A day at Cockatoo Island
Outside the Biennale, Cockatoo Island offers much!
At Home: It’s not all black and white
Discover the shades of grey in Brook Andrew's work.
Remembering World War I
Commemoration throughout the state.
Aztecs: Worth the sacrifice
The gruesome truth of human sacrifice.
The ghost of shopping’s past
The rise of the department store.
Every Breath You Take
Group Exchange, the 2nd Tamworth Textile Triennial
Overheard at the gallery
Careful, we might hear you.
Out Loud: Oral histories make a comeback
The return of the Oral History!
At Home: Connecting to Jonathan Jones
Shining a light onto Jonathan Jones.
The little tank that could
Will Ace be ready for the NSW Lancers Parade in Parramatta?
Retro winter fashion and wooden skis
Gallerina does Thredbo!
A pounce bag and a spray can
Current happenings in the Contemporary Project Space at AGNSW
Changing spaces: Sydney’s ARIs
Artist run spaces move house.
Miniature maritime worlds
Exploring the miniature world of model ships.
Artists fees – a recent discussion
If artists are to be paid fairly we need the public gallery network.
The strange allure of medical museums
Need to satisfy your medical voyeurism? Visit a medical museum.
Serving Country: Centenary & Beyond
This year’s theme is Serving Country: Centenary & Beyond.
At Home: Jim Stanley’s painted past
Take a look at this week's At Home artist
Seeing new histories
Artists respond to museum collection.
From Bali to Mosman (via Paris)
Art and craft from across the world in Mosman Art Gallery.
Mary Boulton Pioneer Cottage
An hour of your time well spent.
Industry ‘standards’ for NSW museums
Management practices for museums.
National Touring Initiative finds People Like Us
Congratulations UNSW Galleries!
Playing in clay: lines of inquiry
Contemporary ceramics in survey.
1000 species in one perfect app
For every ornithologist, herpetologist and the plain old nature-lover!
At Home: Margaret and the Meehi
The river and its painted life.
Walk the talk: Reconciliation Week
Get involved today.
The building blocks of history
The Acropolis is brighter and 'blockier'!
Chinese art re-formed
Hop on in to be Reformed!
Construction approaches the finish line
Tweed Museum nears completion.
Calleen Art Award announced
Who brought home the $18,000 prize?
Collections make connections
Come celebrate with your local museum!
Phryne Fisher’s fabulous fashions
Frills, frippery and frocks - Miss Fisher's fashions on display.
The Broken Hill massacre
Read about the 'Only enemy attack on Australia soil during WWI'.
Collaborative craft reinterpreted
Tradition reinterprets technology.
Doing it in Deni
Deniliquin is a destination with much to offer.
Planes with personality
Introduce yourself to Transavia Airtruk and Clancy Skybaby!
Every renovator’s heritage dream
The annual week-long celebration of Australia’s national heritage!
Following Dobell
Dobell as one-time Archibald winner.
A salty supper
The poisoned chalice of our environmental practices.
Campbelltown Arts Centre never looked so good
Campbelltown transformed by TV Moore.
Biennale for bubs
Biennale reimagined for kids.
The best of Broken Hill
The best of Broken Hill.
Biennale of Sydney imagines new worlds
Sometimes with art, big is definitely better.
Caring collections: Westmead Hospital art collection
Know an artist whose works could contribute to a caring collection?
Collections prevent crime
Ethnographic collection put to good use.
Airport art welcomes you in Wagga Wagga
Wagga Wagga welcomes you with Wiradjuri weaving.
At Home: Woven in wire, shaped in steel
Lorraine Connelly-Northey’s pieces loom large and beautiful at New Weave.
Artists’ studios: open doors
Sneak peak into artists and their studios.
Striking Contrasts unpacked
Video art of contemporary Australia unpacked.
Dug in, down under with larrikin humour
World War II bunker and down under humour. Check it out!
Lover of butterflies?
International Women's Day—celebrate the art and science of the Scott sisters.
Berry Museum: Touchy subjects, touchy objects
Berry Museum provides a touching experience!
If these walls could talk
A look back into 14 MacMahon Street's 85 year occupation history.
At Home: The Sketchbooks of Tommy McRae
Read this week's At Home: Aboriginal artist of NSW article!
Anne Frank Today
Inspired by Anne Frank's story? New exhibition opening soon.
Building home
Building a magical monstrous city in Bathurst.
Five reasons to visit Regional Public Galleries
Unique destinations, experiences and stories.
Making the invisible visible
Trio of female artists show how objects have energies.
A new home for the Tweed Regional Museum
Tweed Museum rebuild runs on schedule.
Sydney's museums alive online
Sydney Living Museums launches its new website.
The museum vs the caravan Park
Check the score - the museum versus the caravan park.
Sustainability comes to NERAM
What does sustainability in an art museum look like?
Bellingen's very own Paradise
A piece of Paradise in Bellingen.
The great outdoors as a living museum
There's more to the great outdoors than beaches and bikinis.
At Home: Man possessed and dispossessed
Essential Australia Day viewing.
Q&A: The 3D printing revolution
Watch the magic of 3D printing!
‘Tis the Season to be Swappy
Roman Ondak comes to Parramatta.
Blacktown City Art Prize winners announced
Now in its 18th year this is the most popular prize in Western Sydney.
Contemporary art virgin? Walk Sydney’s galleries
What our intern thought after walking Sydney's art galleries.
1100 handmade bolts
Remembering lost lives.
At Home: Phyllis Stewart
Ever seen a woven octopus?
Lord Howe and the horny turtle
From horny turtles to sharks with dental issues, there is much to see at this museum.
Firstdraft bids goodbye to Chalmers Street
The end and beginning of an era.
Newcastle Museum becomes underwater world
Deep Oceans: the latest, biggest exhibition to hit Newcastle.
Nambucca Heads
The treasures of small museums.
Distant connections to the here and now
Collaborative museum and education venture produces new work.
Not just fabulous frocks
For lovers of fine fabric, furs and frocks.
At Home: My saltwater murris
Love the sea? Then you'll love Michael Philp's new work.
At Home: The paper home
Euraba Papermakers newest work on display.
Dorrigo and their Don
A taste of the small museum.
Danelle Bergstrom Wins People’s Choice Award, Portia Geach Memorial Award 2013
Danelle Bergstrom wins the Portia Geach Memorial Award People’s Choice.
At Home: Karla Dickens and the black Madonnas
Our first At Home artist.
Aboriginal Language Map
Locate an Aboriginal artist's Home using this map.
Curatorial clout makes Menagerie sing
Contemporary Indigenous sculpture.
State Library war diaries collection online
Help them tell your family's war story.
Chain Reaction
An artist's very personal connection with the atomic tests.
At Home: Aboriginal artists of NSW
Showcasing NSW Indigenous artists.
Newcastle Museum celebrating all walks of … life?
The Walking Dead comes to Newcastle.
Vikings disarmed
The Vikings were plundering invaders with horned helmets, right?
Lloyd Rees: Works from the South Coast
It’s quirky! It’s fun! It’s about recycling!
Roll out the red carpet
Grammy, Emmy, Toni, Oscar? No, it’s the IMAGinE Awards!
Soul mate portrait wins People’s Choice at Tweed
1500 votes decide a clear winner.
Staring at your killer?
One deadly museum!
Modern Objective
A rare Modernist delight in the heart of the city.
Sidestepping into the past of Rugby League history
More then just the love of the game.
The Yenda Rain Project
Art helps heal community trauma.
Norman Lindsay paintings evacuated
Worsening bushfire threat prompts collection evacuation.
Fire beats at Lithgow State Mine Museum's door
The State Mine Fire hits the State Mine.
Protecting possessions from Bushfire
Protecting your possessions as fires rage.
Don't hide your face, Ms Rolfe
Wayward relative or colourful Sydney-sider in your history?
Sydney moderns in a collection near you
Solid bounty of modernist works in regional galleries.
Life at the edge of reality
Adam Norton, artist in a high-vis onesie.
The Art of Installation
A ‘behind-the-scenes’ look at the NSW Visual Arts Fellowship for Emerging Artists.
Wendy Sharpe wins Manning Art Prize-Naked and Nude 2013
Wendy Sharpe Naked and Nude
Touching ancient history
Now ancient artifacts can be broken.
Follow the fleet
RAN in Jervis Bay.
Welcome to our Website
Find museums, galleries and Aboriginal cultural centres.
Pioneering expectations
The Pioneer Women's Hut's claim to fame is their outstanding quilt collection.
A multitude of migration stories
A taste of the treasure trove of online exhibitions.
The promise of empty shelves
Calling all artists and those interested in Blue Mountains heritage
'I can see you up there daddy'
2 minutes of your time please.
Finding a family at 13
Read about Dorothy Silvertsen who left home at 13 to find a new family
Sydney Contemporary
Exceptional quality and complexity of Australian artwork at Sydney Contemporary
On murdered muses
Florence Broadhurst: artist, designer, dance girl and murdered muse
In-Habit: A collaboration of kids, community and cardboard
Man plays architect, builder and town planner
Legends of Lithgow
Be surprised by the sites of lovely Lithgow
The Flat-pack Portable Cell
Ikea meets prison at Cooma Correctional Services Museum.
Museums for kids–rain, hail or shine!
Museums are for sunny days too!
The essential line
Get up close and personal with Hugo!
Who's judging?
Peer review at its best.
Love Lego?
This is both fun and amazing.
Meet mini Marion!
Marion is the latest in clever technology
The significance of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions
Stuff everyone should know
Why we need a mandatory code for the indigenous art industry
Let's get behind the IartC and support the Mandatory Code
Keep it. Where?
Finding a home for the Syron collection
Eat Your History
The cook and the curator take us down memory lane presenting recipes that built the colony.
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