Explore our blogs from 2019, captured by the Australian Web Archive.

Explore our exhibitions from 2020 and 2021, captured by the Australian Web Archive.

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Explore early European encounters with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art through the work of William Westall and engage students in considering the cultural significance of special places.

Dr Jo Langdon presented a lecture on research into the lives and records of Australian women pilots.

Explore our events held in 2022, captured by the Australian Web Archive.

Katherine Kovacic, the author of NLA Publishing's new title Australia's Dogs, talks about the photography included.

Drawings, sketches, plans and photographs of Australian colonial architecture, ancient buildings from China and Greece, furnature designs and sketches for a proposed "ideal city" of Kurrajong.

Canberra Writer's Festival Artistic Director, Beejay Silcox, talked about the festival and the inaugural meeting of Canberra’s Biggest Book Club. 

About 280 paintings and drawings by William Strutt dating from 1837-1900, produced in France, Australia, New Zealand, Africa and England, as well as 2 typescripts of stories by Strutt.