National Library of Australia

TOURS

Volunteer guides are available between 10 am and 4 pm daily. Free.
Group tours are also available on request. For further information please contact Helen Tsogas (02) 6262 1634

 

TALKS

Travellers Art: The Journey of a Lifetime
Exhibition introduction by curator Tim Fisher
Thursday 12 June, 12.30 pm
Friends Lounge, followed by Exhibition Gallery, Free
Bookings essential: (02) 6262 1122

Turning the Pages-
Exhibition curator Tim Fisher
Witness the process of page turning in the Travellers Art exhibition.
Featured items: Birds and Flowers of New South Wales Drawn on the Spot in 1788, ’89 & ’90 [known as The Hunter Sketchbook], by Captain John Hunter RN of the First Fleet; also The Lycett Album with its extraordinary watercolour drawings of Aborigines and Australian scenery by Joseph Lycett.
Wednesday 25 June, 12.30 pm
Exhibition Gallery, Free

Turning the Pages-
Exhibition curator, Tim Fisher
Witness the process of page turning in the Travellers Art exhibition.
Featured items: Sketchbooks of the Pacific in the 1840s with Robert Marsh Westmacott's Drawings of New Zealand 1840; J.H. Goldfinch's Drawings of Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand and the South Seas 1842-1851; and Charles-Claude Antiq's Original Drawings Taiti, Marquises, Morea, Valparaiso 1845-1847.
Wednesday 16 July, 12.30 pm
Exhibition Gallery, Free

Photography and the Traveller's Eye
Exhibition talk about Travellers Art by Helen Ennis, Senior Lecturer, School of Art, ANU
Wednesday 30 July, 12.30 pm
Exhibition Gallery, Free

Friends Event-
Journey Through the Mind: Making the Exhibition
Tuesday 12 August, 12.30 pm
Exhibition Gallery
Admission by donation
Bookings essential: (02) 6262 1698, or email friends@nla.gov.au

Turning the Pages-
Exhibition curator, Tim Fisher
Witness the process of page turning in the Travellers Art exhibition. Featured items: Sketchbook kept by Charles Whitmore Babbage when accompanying his father B.H. Babbage on surveying expeditions, 1857-1862; Sir Whately Eliot's Sketches in New Zealand and Other Places 1874; 'Gone Out to Australia', the 1882 illustrated journal of H.G.H. Sandeman.
Wednesday 20 August, 12.30 pm
Exhibition Gallery, Free