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  • Details of artworks from 'Max', 'Where is the Green Sheep?' and 'The Magic Pudding'
    September 2019

    Stories in an Exhibition

    Grace Blakeley-Carroll
    23 August 2019

    Many of us cherish the books we read and enjoyed as children....

  • J.C. Williamson Production Costume Design for Guest 8 & Kristian Fredrikson Costume design for Ghosts in Cinderella Act I and II
    June 2019

    Fashion for the Spotlight

    Brooke Kelly

    Cyborgs forged from industrial apocalypses, high society ladies in floor-sweeping ball gowns...

  • Cover of 'Australia's First Naturalists: Indigenous Peoples’ Contribution to Early Zoology'

    Australia’s First Naturalists: Indigenous Peoples’ Contribution to Early Zoology

    By Penny Olsen and Lynette Russell

    Australia’s First Naturalists...

  • Barry York, 'Peter Gelling and Blues Band Blind Freddy', 1995
    June 2019

    If It Wasn't for the Blues

    Barry York

    It is always very sad to lose a close friend, but worse...

  • Charles Mackay (editor), The illustrated Book of Scottish Songs from the 16th to the 19th Century (London: Houlston and Wright, 1867)
    June 2019

    Listening to the Past

    Jennifer Gall

    While British house museums boast music collections dating back several centuries, Australian...

  • Salvatore Rossano, 'Angelo and Dora Marchese, Melbourne', 2017
    June 2019

    Sonu: Songs from the Homeland

    Salvatore Rossano

    Italians have lived in Australia since the first English settlers arrived. Their...

  • An Exploring Party in New South Wales, 1826
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    Australia's Fauna Revealed

    Penny Olsen

    John Hunter, the second governor of the new Colony of New South...

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