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Hand drawn costume designs of characters for The Girls of Gottenberg

Album of costume designs for a production of Carmen up to data, ca. 1892, nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1906313 and Costume designs for The Girls of Gottenberg, c. 1910, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-133118274

Announcing the recipients of the 2026 National Library of Australia Fellowships, Scholarships and Creative Arts Fellowship
14 Jan 2026

Congratulations to the 17 recipients of National Library of Australia Fellowships, Scholarships and Creative Arts Fellowship in 2026.  

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Detailed illustration of a 2 storey brick house with a woman at the front door, and people walking along the path out front

Hardy Wilson, House in Campbell Street, Hobart, 1916, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-147889204

Public Domain Day 2026
02 Jan 2026

Read about works and manuscripts in our collection that are now in the public domain.

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A photograph of the Library’s Treasures Gallery. The William Shakespeare display is on the left-hand side of the image. The Fred Ward card catalogue is on the right-hand side of the image.

National Library of Australia Treasures Gallery.

Welcome to Treasures 2025
12 Dec 2025

Explore our new Treasures Gallery exhibition opening Saturday 13 December.

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detail of cover of Air travel and holiday with illustration of two women driving a car past some boats

Cover of Air travel and holiday, vol. 1, No. 3 (cropped), March 1948, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3997211269 

Destination Trove: Travel magazines now online
12 Dec 2025

Pack your bags for a trip through new travel serials, now on Trove.

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detail of illustration of crowd listening to a man on stage

Hume-Cook, James, Liberal, Division of Bourke, VIC (detail), 1910, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3548960192

Australian democracy finds a home on Trove
04 Dec 2025

Explore election ephemera from 1901 to 1970s, now online.

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Text in a retro font reading '1975 Living in the Seventies' on a bright orange background
1975: Living in the Seventies
14 Aug 2025 - 09 Mar 2026

Look back on life in the 70s including politics, feminism, pop culture, news of the day, and more.

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Learn with the curators of the Treasures Gallery
04 Feb 2026

Join our live webinar to go behind the scenes of our refreshed Treasures Gallery.

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A black and white portrait in profile of Charles Dickens, alongside a blue book cover featuring two illustrated cats

G.W. Wilson & Co, Portrait of Charles Dickens, c.1870, nla.obj-142385853; and book cover, Great Writers & The Cats Who Owned Them, by Susannah Fullerton

Author talk: Great Writers & the Cats Who Owned Them
05 Feb 2026

Susannah Fullerton discusses her newest book Great Writers & the Cats Who Owned Them.

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Aaron Miller, Jodah's Codex, 2022

Wizardly tomes, mysterious manuscripts and cursed volumes
09 Feb 2026

Explore 'Pop Bibliography', the representation of rare and historic books across popular culture with special collections curator Allie Alvis.

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