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New Director for National Museum of Australia
Minister for the Arts, Peter Garrett, and Chairman of the National Museum of Australia, Danny Gilbert, today announced the appointment of Andrew Sayers as Director of the National Museum. (15 April 2010)

National Museum's Papunya exhibition to visit
The National Museum of Australia exhibition Papunya Painting: Out of the Australian Desert, which showcases the work of Aboriginal artists, will go on display at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing from June until August, 2010.

National Museum to showcase Irish in Australia
The National Museum of Australia is developing a major exhibition on the Irish in Australia, to open on St Patrick’s Day 2011.

Political cartooning exhibition wraps up 2009
A prominent media commentator has raised concerns about the future for Australian cartoonists at the launch of Behind the Lines: The Year’s Best Cartoons 2009 an exhibition of the year’s best political cartoons at the National Museum of Australia today.

Water: H2O = Life opens at the National Museum
As the world debates climate change the National Museum of Australia will present an in-depth look at the planet’s most precious natural resource — water.

Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium
The National Museum of Australia will explore the legacy of the biggest scientific expedition in Australian history at Barks, Birds & Billabongs a week long symposium on the American-Australian scientific expedition to Arnhem Land in 1948.

National Museum tells the story of a fight for Indigenous rights
From Little Things Big Things Grow: Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920-1970, an exhibition featuring some of the key moments of Aboriginal activism, has been opened by film maker Rachel Perkins at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.

National Museum rolls out huge paintings with a big story
The National Museum of Australia has acquired two large paintings from the south Kimberley in Western Australia and will conduct a conservation inspection on the works in the Hall of the National Museum this evening.

Museum exhibition tells a fine yarn about wool
For more than 200 years, wool has been part of Australia’s social and economic history. An exhibition about this important Australian story, A Fine Yarn: Innovations in Australia’s wool industry, opens today at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.

Seattle Art Museum returns sacred object to Australia
Secret/sacred objects of the type being returned are typically used in religious ceremonies by central Australian Aboriginal men. They are considered to be physical manifestations of sacred ancestral beings and as such have great spiritual power.

Voyages of the Pacific Ancestors: Vaka Moana
The National Museum of Australia presents a major exhibition which tells the story of the world’s last great migration — the exploration and peopling of the vast Pacific Ocean. Voyages of the Pacific Ancestors: Vaka Moana opens at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra on Friday.

Museum accepts a major Australian musical work
The National Museum of Australia has accepted a major Australian musical work for orchestra and didjeridu which will be played in public for the first time in the Hall of the National Museum tonight.