National Museum of Australia

Collections from the Vatican Anima Mundi Museum, the Sharjah Museums Authority and the National Museum of Australia So That You Might Know Each Other: Faith and Culture in Islam brings together nearly 100 objects from collections held in the Vatican, the Emirate of Sharjah and Australia. This exhibition offers audiences a glimpse into the lives and culture of Islamic communities...

The Aboriginal people of Australia's Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining and pastoral industries led to the surveying of a track along which cattle could be driven from Kimberley stations to markets in the south. This track became known as the...

The Story of Cook and 1770 marks the first moment of British contact with the east coast of the continent we now know as Australia. It is one of our nation's origin stories, although remembered very differently by Anglo-Australians and by Indigenous Australians. Endeavour Voyage: The Untold Stories of Cook and the First Australians brings something new to this chapter...