The Pompeii experience, up close and personal
“Everybody needs to see an exhibition about Pompeii and apart from going to Pompeii itself, our exhibition is the next best thing,” National Museum curator Lily Withycombe tells arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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Nobel Laureate and former vice-chancellor of the ANU Brian Schmidt has unveiled the Canberra Museum + Gallery’s latest exhibition, Outer Space: Stromlo to the Stars, marking the 100th anniversary of Mount Stromlo Observatory.
A live audiovisual experience created by Australian artist and composer Robin Fox continues the National Film and Sound Archive’s recent visual and audial attack upon our senses, in the best possible way.
Casts of volcano victims, detailed frescoes, carbonised bread and other ancient artefacts will help illustrate the story of Pompeii in a new Australian exhibit.
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‘Digital memories’ of ghostly trees
The National Film and Sound Archive’s show Ghost Trees is a moving (yes, it moves) exhibit that has to be seen and experienced in the comfort of a beanbag, reports HELEN MUSA.
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Egyptian show smashes museum’s records
The National Museum of Australia is rejoicing that its exhibition Discovering Ancient Egypt has smashed all records for previous shows, with, at last count, 196,000 visits, making it the biggest blockbuster in the museum’s 23-year history.
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Library looks at hopes and fears of migrants
The newest major show opening in the National Library's refurbished exhibition galleries today is one everyone can relate to – a survey of the library’s material relating to migrants, and aren’t we all migrants, asks arts editor HELEN MUSA.
"It's almost impossible to believe it, but the upcoming exhibition, Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao, is the first exhibition in this country dedicated to the famous French post-impressionist artist," writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Riding the Olympic Wave, a new exhibition at the National Museum of Australia, shines the spotlight emerging Olympic sport, reports HELEN MUSA.
The National Film And Sound Archive has opened a dramatic, moving exhibition of birds on huge screens in an audiovisual experience called Temple – “because it's like a temple of nature. You can feel the awe,” the artists say.
If it hadn't been for Cyclone Tracy, Katherine McMahon would never have become director of the National Museum of Australia, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Project Alchemy is a multimedia exhibition coming up at The Hive, in Queanbeyan, in which the rubble, charcoal and shattered dreams that followed the Black Summer Fires are turned into pure gold, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
"Discovering Ancient Egypt”, coming soon to the National Museum, is an exhibition with a difference, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The glamour and excitement of Australian press photography have been the subject of many exhibitions, but now the National Archives turns the focus on Australia's forgotten government photographers, reports HELEN MUSA.
An exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia looks at representations of the figure by female artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The National Film and Sound Archive is launching a new digital exhibition to celebrate 100 years of radio in Australia.
CON BOEKEL reviews “Canberra/Place and People/Kamberri” at CMAG.
The National Museum has added a Ukrainian-language audio guide for its blockbuster exhibition “Feared and Revered: Feminine Power through the Ages”.
“SPORT is a storytelling machine,” says Guy Hansen, curator of the National Library’s new exhibition, “Grit & Gold: Tales from a Sporting Nation”.
