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Contemporary Indigenous fibre art ReCoil at Museum
ReCoil: Change and Exchange in Coiled Fibre Art explores the influences underpinning changes to contemporary Indigenous fibre art happening in many parts of Australia. The exhibition opens at the National Museum of Australia this weekend.

National Museum acquires sword
The National Museum of Australia has acquired a sword which tells part of the Ned Kelly story.

Southern Cloud plane crash remembered
In May 1931 two crew and six passengers lost their lives in one of Australia’s greatest aviation mysteries — the disappearance of the Southern Cloud. Despite a comprehensive air search, the wreck lay undiscovered in the Snowy Mountains for 27 years.

PS Enterprise celebrates 130th birthday
The National Museum of Australia will celebrate the remarkable story of the Paddle Steamer Enterprise and volunteers who keep the vessel steaming 130 years after it was launched in Echuca in 1878.

Damage to PS Enterprise
National Museum of Australia conservators have begun an assessment of damage to the Paddle Steamer Enterprise caused by a steel bar which was thrown at the vessel at 9.43am on Saturday 27 September.

Museum acquires Burke and Wills expedition watch
The National Museum of Australia has acquired a gold pocket watch used by the explorer William John Wills on the 1860s Victorian Exploring Expedition, the legendary Burke and Wills expedition.

Celebrating Australian Citizenship Day 2008
More than 1600 people will become Australian citizens tomorrow as part of Australian Citizenship Day celebrations around the nation.

Emily – a hit in Japan and now heading home
During an earlier showing at the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, the exhibition attracted 30,000 visitors. Utopia: the Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye includes 120 works from 65 institutions and private collections. It is the largest collection of works by a single Australian artist to travel outside Australia.

Snapshot of Aussie Greek cafe culture
A photography exhibition exploring an important chapter in the development of Australian culture, Selling an American Dream: Australia’s Greek Café, opens at the National Museum of Australia on Friday 11 July.

Photographic exhibition captures a different time
The National Museum of Australia will showcase a large selection of never before seen images in a free photographic exhibition, A Different Time: The Expedition Photographs of Herbert Basedow 1903 -1928, from 11 July to 12 October 2008.

Vivid launch: an Australian eye behind the lens
A national celebration of photography in Australia, including 100 exhibitions at 50 venues across Canberra, will be launched at the National Museum of Australia at 6.30pm on Friday 11 July, 2008.

Museum introduces online education resource
The National Museum of Australia celebrates NAIDOC Week 2008 with the introduction of an online resource to help teachers and their students explore the 1967 Referendum and the significance of this landmark event in Australian history.