Free exhibitions in Australia September 2025 – guide

From a regional Andy Warhol display to the largest collection of Papua New Guinea urban art outside the country, discover free exhibitions.

Your go-to guide for the best free exhibitions to check out in the month of September across Australian cities, metropolitan and regional.

Nuclear Landscapes explores the legacy of atomic energy upon the American landscape following 16 July 1945, when J Robert Oppenheimer detonated the world’s first atomic device. Divided into six chapters – Mining, Processing, Testing, Weapons, Power, and Waste – the exhibition by artist Brett Leigh Dicks presents a sobering look at how atomic energy has carved its indelible presence into the America’s past, present, and future.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_