The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand (BSANZ) conference keynote talk with retired Australian and New Zealand rare books curators reflecting on their careers. 

American cartographic expert Emeritus Professor Dennis Reinhartz discussed the exploration and charting of the Americas and the Pacific undertaken by the Spanish from the 15th to the 18th centuries with map collector, curator and author Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy.

John Shortis presented his 2024 National Folk Fellowship research into Australian protest songs.

Hear Oxford academic Professor Emma Smith, the world’s leading Shakespeare scholar, discuss Shakespeare’s First Folio as part of its 400 year anniversary.

See Dr Kate Flaherty and actors from Bell Shakespeare explore the link between the books that inspired Shakespeare and Shakespeare's own work.

Join us for the third illustrated Shakespeare lecture and discover the objects and stories that reveal how Shakespeare made landfall in Australia.  

Learn about the features, habitat and behaviours of some truly peculiar Australian animals in this interactive online learning session.

Children aged 8 to 15 years of age were invited to join artKids for a comic drawing workshop during the school holidays.

We screened the original 1995 Jumanji film in our Theatre for families to enjoy watching (or re-watching).

To coincide with our exhibition Viewfinder: Photography from the 1970s to Now, we partnered with PhotoAccess ACT for a special school holiday workshop.