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Major partnership between the National Museum and British Museum
A landmark partnership between the National Museum of Australia and the British Museum will see rare objects, including a shield from the earliest encounter between Indigenous Australians and Lieutenant James Cook, brought to Australia for the first time since they were collected.

National Museum of Australia welcomes the appointment of Dr Janet Albrechtsen to the Museum Council
The following comment can be attributed to National Museum of Australia director, Dr Mathew Trinca: The National Museum of Australia welcomes the appointment of Dr Janet Albrechtsen to the Museum’s Council.

Rare First World War Footage to be Screened at National Museum
Rare footage featuring life on the home front in Australia during the First World War will be screened at the National Museum of Australia (NMA) in Canberra, as part of a new collaboration with the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA).

Robots make connections for National Water Week
Robots and rivers make unlikely partners, but they came together this week for some Murray–Darling Basin students.

Spirited – landmark exhibition celebrates Australia's horse story
Brumby runners, a historic horse-drawn milk cart and the two oldest intact Melbourne Cups, feature in a unique exhibition on the horse, opening at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, on 11 September 2014.

National Museum acquires Michael Chamberlain Torana
The National Museum of Australia, in Canberra has acquired the 1977 model yellow hatchback V8 Torana, which was central to the conviction and ultimate exoneration of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, over the 1980 disappearance of their daughter, Azaria

Queen's Daimler car 'chassis' on display this weekend
Visitors to the National Museum of Australia during this Queen’s Birthday long weekend will have the rare opportunity to see the inner workings of the reconditioned chassis of the 1948 Daimler landaulette car, which was used by Queen Elizabeth II during her historic 1954 tour.

Australian September 11 victim honoured on World Red Cross Day
The National Museum of Australia and the Australian Red Cross today commemorate World Red Cross Day by honouring the life of Yvonne Kennedy, one of 10 Australians killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.

Old Masters – A true Australian art movement
Rare bark paintings will feature in a December exhibition of Arnhem Land artworks at the National Museum of Australia, in Canberra.

National Museum of Australia acquires a piece of exploration history
The National Museum of Australia has acquired a pocket watch belonging to the father of the Overland Telegraph and one of Australia’s greatest inland explorers, John McDouall Stuart.

On Country: Connect, Work, Celebrate
The National Museum of Australia in Canberra is launching On Country: Connect, Work, Celebrate – an exhibition celebrating how Indigenous people apply generations of knowledge to manage Australia’s land, rivers and sea.

National Museum of Australia acquires the oldest intact Melbourne Cup
It is the race that stops the nation and the National Museum of Australia in Canberra hopes to stop visitors in their tracks with the acquisition of the earliest unaltered Melbourne Cup in existence.