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    EXHIBITION

    Online Tour–Australian Dreams: Picturing our Built World

    Join National Library Curator Matthew Jones for the first instalment of a two-part online tour of our current exhibition, Australian Dreams: Picturing our Built World.

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    The Library is BindiMapped

    The National Library has launched a new indoor navigation system to assist visitors with low vision or blindness to safely and independently navigate the building.

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    GRANTS

    Community Heritage Grant recipients announced

    The Community Heritage Grants program provides grants of up to $15,000 to community organisations to assist with the preservation of locally owned, but nationally significant, publicly accessible collections. In 2020, 61 grants were awarded.

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  • Australian Dreams Exhibition Branding
    03 Aug to 31 Jan
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    Australian Dreams: Picturing our Built World

    9:00 am to 5:00 pm

    For over 200 years, painters, printmakers and photographers have been in a creative conversation with the built environment. Reflecting progress, social ideas, understanding of the...

  • Most likely The Empress of Germany's Bird of Paradise
    08 Sep to 08 Mar
    Exhibition

    Birds of Paradise - Ellis Rowan in New Guinea

    9:00 am to 5:00 pm
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    30 Nov to 06 Dec
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    NLA Bookshop Christmas Shopping Week 20% OFF ALL STOCK!*

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    02 Dec to 09 Dec
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    03 Dec
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    02 Dec
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    02 Dec
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    Online Tour—Part One: Australian Dreams - The Historical

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    01 Dec
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    20 Nov
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    Researching Collection Material with Kate Forsyth and Belinda Murrell

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