Treasures Gallery
The National Library of Australia’s greatest treasures are now on permanent display in the new state-of-the art Treasures Gallery.
The Treasures Gallery features some of the National Library’s most prized items collected over the past 100 years. From Lieutenant James Cook’s journal of the Endeavour to Edward Mabo’s papers, from Australia’s earliest existing printed document to Jørn Utzon’s model for the Sydney Opera House shells.
This new display space will provide visitors to the National Library with a truly remarkable experience.
National Library of Australia, Treasures Gallery
10 am-5 pm, free
Inquiries: 02 6262 1111
James Cook (1728-1779)
Endeavour journal 1768-1771
ink; 34.0 x 52.5 cm
Manuscripts Collection, nla.ms-ms1
Inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, 2001
Download ( 6.2Mb zip)
Playbill for a performance of Jane Shore, The Wapping Landlady and The Miraculous Cure at the Theatre, Sydney, Saturday 30 July 1796
Sydney: George Hughes, Govt Printer for Theatre, Sydney, 1796
typeset ink on handmade paper;
20.0 x 12.0 cm
Australian Rare Books Collection,
nla.aus-vn4200235
Gift from the Government of Canada to the people of Australia, 2007
Download (4.8Mb zip)
George Raper (1769-1796)
King parrot (Alisterus scapularis)
1788
Part of the Ducie Collection of First Fleet Art
watercolour drawing
45.9 x 30.4cm
nla.pic-vn3579209
Download ( 4.92Mb zip)
Ellis Rowan (1848-1922)
Barringtonia sp with larva
1916
Ellis Rowan Papua Collection
watercolour
73.3 x 55.8 cm
nla.pic-an23621170
Download ( 6.71Mb zip)
Jørn Utzon (1918–2008)
Architect’s model for the geometry of the Sydney Opera House shells 1961
paint, wood and letraset type;
29.5 x 88.8 x 8.0 cm
Pictures Collection, nla.pic-an7650469
Presented by Professor H. Ingham Ashworth
Download ( 5.04Mb zip)
Norman Lindsay (1879-1969)
Fall-in!
1918
Picture
Government of the Commonwealth of Australia poster
Colour image
45.2 x 40.5 cm
nla.pic-an14145632
Download (12.42Mb zip)
Azaria Chamberlain’s hospital identity anklet 1980
plastic, ballpoint pen on coloured card and metal; 1.9 x 6.0 cm
Papers of Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton
Manuscripts Collection, MS 9180, Series 1
Download ( 6.1Mb zip)
Edward Koiki Mabo (1936–1992)
East-north-east shoreline of Murray Island looking west-south-west 1980s
ink, coloured felt-tip and highlighter pen; 20.4 x 32.5 cm
Papers of Bryan Keon-Cohen: The Mabo Case Manuscripts
Manuscripts Collection,
nla.ms-ms9518-1-1x
Inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, 2001
Download (6.1Mb zip)
Mem Fox (b. 1946)
First draft of Possum Magic 1978
typescript; 29.6 x 21.0 cm
Papers of Mem Fox
Manuscripts Collection, MS 9190, Series 9
Download ( 5.69Mb zip)
Hendrick Doncker (1626-1699), after Jan Jansson (1588-1664)
Indian Ocean (Mar di India)
in The sea atlas (De zee-atlas ofte water-waereld)
Amsterdam: 1659
hand-coloured engraving; 46.0 x 63.0 cm
Petherick Collection (Maps),
nla.map-ra10-s45
Download ( 7.8Mb zip)
