Exhibitions
The National Library’s new Treasures Gallery is scheduled to be completed in 2011. The gallery will display some of the Library’s rare and valuable collection items. In 2009, the Library held a preview exhibition of the new gallery, which you can learn more about through the podcasts below. Other podcasts from recent Library exhibitions are also provided.
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Cultural Memory
Contributor: National Library Publications & Events
Date published: Monday 18 February 2013
Duration 1:00:13
Format:
mp3 audio
Anne Brennan, head of the Art Theory Workshop at the Australian National University’s School of Art (ANU) and Helen Ennis, Things exhibition curator and Associate Professor at the ANU discuss the ways that photographs and objects act as repositories for our memories and meanings.
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Hunting and Collecting Things
Contributor: National Library Publications & Events
Date published: Friday, 7 December 2012
Duration 36:59
Format:
mp3 audio
Nicola Mackay-Sim, Curator of Pictures, talks about some of her favourite works in Things: Photographing the Constructed World and shares her adventures of hunting and collecting Australia’s visual heritage.
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Helen Ennis: curators talk
Contributor: National Library Publications & Events
Date published: Friday, 30 November 2012
Duration 52:07
Format:
mp3 audio
Helen Ennis, Things exhibition curator, talks about navigating her way from A-Z through the Library’s 700,000 photographic works to create Things an exhibition of photographs of the constructed world.
Download mp3 43.6 Mb
The Great Australian Emptiness
Contributor: National Library Publications & Events
Date published: Monday, 9 july 2012
Duration 1:29:27
Format:
mp3 audio
On the final day of The Life of Patrick White exhibition, join the panel as they explore how Australia has changed since White wrote his seminal essay, Prodigal Son.
Download mp3 27.4 Mb
Patrick-White
Contributor: National Library Publications & Events
Date published: Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Duration 26:12
Format:
mp3 audio
Opening speeches to the Patrick-White exhibition, featuring James Spigelman; Chair of the Council of the National Library of Australia, Barbara Mobbs; literary executor of Patrick White and Judy Davis; actor staring in the 2010 release of The Eye of the Storm.
Download mp3 45.4 Mb
Handwritten special lecture
Contributor: National Library Publications & Events
Date published: Thursday, 1 December 2011
Duration 1:16:19
Format:
mp3 audio
Prof. Dr Eef Overgaauw reflects on the history of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library) and the manuscript collection behind the exhibition
Download mp3 audio 82.11 Mb
The Dunera Boys Remembered
Contributor: National Library - Publications
Date broadcast: Friday, 27 August 2010
Duration: 1:25:32
Format:
mp3 audio
A seminar featuring Dr Paul Bartrop and Dr Evelyn Juers along with first person accounts of the journey and incarceration.
Download mp3 33.91 Mb
The Dunera Boys and the Australian Christian Student Movement
Contributor: National Library - Publications
Date broadcast: Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Duration: 16:00
Format:
mp3 audio
In this exhibition talk associate professor Renate Howe discusses the links between the 'Dunera Boys' and the Australian Christian Student Movement.
Download mp3 33.97 Mb
Dunera Boys curatorial talk
Contributor: National Library - Exhibitions
Date broadcast: Monday, 22 February 2010
Duration: 37:01
Format:
mp3 audio
Assistant Curator Susannah Helman discusses items of significance in the Library's newest exhibition.
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Notebooks tell Nick Cave's story
Contributor: ABC News
Date broadcast: Friday, 14 Aug 2009
Duration: 09:26
Format:
mp3 audio
The life and work of Australian musician and author Nick Cave is on show at the National Library of Australia in Canberra. Arts Centre Melbourne curator Janine Barrand speaks with reporter Penny McLintock of ABC News.
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Special preview
Contributor: SBS Worldview program
Date broadcast: Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Duration: 08:15
Format:
mp3 audio
Kate Russell of SBS speaks with Nat Williams, Director of Exhibitions, about the Library's state-of-the-art treasures gallery opening in 2011.
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Treasures Gallery preview
Contributor: 666 ABC Radio Canberra
Date broadcast: Wednesday, 22 Apr 2009
Duration: 09:07
Format:
mp3 audio
Louise Maher speaks with Nat Williams, Director of Exhibitions, about what we can expect to see in the Library's new gallery space.
