There’s no business like show business, and this exhibition brings Australia’s performing arts history into the limelight.

Learn about the fascinating career of Eleanor Witcombe with 2023 National Library Fellow and biographer Eleanor Hogan.

Dr Eleanor Hogan presented a lecture on her 2023 National Library Fellowship research into the brilliant career of award-winning dramatist and scriptwriter Eleanor Witcombe.

The Library has a diverse collection of materials documenting the history of Australian musical performance.

We hold one of Australia’s largest collections of performing arts materials.

Our theatre and performance music collections showcase the music Australians were listening to throughout the 20th century.

Join Madeline and Allister as they dive into our collection and discover items from the '90s and '00s.

The PROMPT Collection is a collection of collections. It relates to the performing arts industry in Australia from the 1880s until the present.

The Oral History and Folklore collection records the voices that describe our cultural, intellectual and social life.

About 15,500 items of sheet music and about 700 music albums from the late eighteenth century to the 1980s, as well as the personal papers of Snell.

Learn how to find and access the Library's vast and diverse collection around film, television and media history.

Personal papers, manuscript scores, literary manuscripts, sound recordings and family photographs of Peter Sculthorpe, plus videos of films for which he wrote the music and television interviews.