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The Johnston Collection

Pieces of The Past: The History of Period Rooms in Museum Settings

Discover the history of the Period Room in the museum setting

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The Johnston Collection

Ethics in The House Museum: the Challenges of Historical Collections with Dr Louise Voll Box

This interactive lecture considers some of the many ethical issues considered by museum leaders and includes case studies of fine…

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The Johnston Collection

The Extraordinary Embassies at Louis XIV’s Versailles

Join speaker Samantha Happé to explore two extraordinary diplomatic receptions at Versailles during the reign of the Sun King.

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Powerhouse Castle Hill. Image: Rory Gardiner. The front entrance to Powerhouse Castle Hill, featuring a minimalistic silver-panelled architecture and large glass doors that also reveals the second floor.
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Powerhouse

Powerhouse Castle Hill is open to the public every weekend.

The new state-of-the-art facility hosts monthly family days.

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National Library of Australia

Spanish mapping of empire with Dennis Reinhartz and Robert Clancy

Join Emeritus Professor Dennis Reinhartz and Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy in discussion.

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Culture crisis – can NZ’s museums be saved?

Surfacing reports on the dire future for Aotearoa's cultural institutions only scratch the surface – Andrew Wood digs deeper to…

MAMA CEO Blair French and 2024 National Photography Prize guest judge Nici Cumpston standing next to ‘Four Days Before Winter’, a series of work by Ellen Dahl. Photo: Jeremy Weihrauch. The photos are displayed in varying scales in a dim gallery space, showing flowing hills.
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Landscape work that encourages ‘concentrated looking’ wins 2024 National Photography Prize

Ellen Dahl takes home the $30,000 National Photography Prize with lens-based works that centres the Norwegian archipelago, Svalbard.

Jumaadi, ‘Malaikat [Angel I]’, 2019-. Acrylic on buffalo hide. Collection of the artist. Image: Supplied. A detailed work depicting two figures flying with white wings and meeting each other in the centre. They both have two eyes on the side of their heads. In the background is an irregular oval with a circle of trees inside and a white bird on the bottom right corner.
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Forming amicable relations between adversarial nations through art

Australian and Indonesian artists traverse a political divide to find common ground and bring distinct ways of addressing shared concerns.

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THE LUME Melbourne

Leonardo da Vinci at THE LUME Melbourne

An inspiring journey through Leonardo da Vinci's life including original pages from his notebooks, machine inventions, a digital art experience…

a montage of sepia toned 18th and 19th century illustrated portraits of 18th and 19th century Australian convicts and First Nations people.
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Major new museum show unshackles convict stories from myth

The exhibition spotlights freedom fighters among Australia’s early convicts to reframe well-worn narratives around their fates as dispossessed victims. Instead,…

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