The Main Reading Room houses a collection of sculptures and paintings inspired by Indigenous stories of the Australian landscape.

Explore 2 different examples of artistic responses to the Second World War. 

We celebrated the final days of our Hopes and Fears: Australian Migration Stories exhibition, with our drop-in art and craft school holiday activity.

Library staff recently attended the Melanesian Arts and Culture Festival (MACFEST), returning with new acquisitions, knowledge and connections.

Dr Caren Florance presented a lecture on her 2024 National Library Fellowship research into artists' books (books made by artists as art).

Explore Philippa Webb's vibrant artist’s travel diaries and learn about her artistic style.

The remarkable and little-known story of Australia's most accomplished artist of the interwar European avant-garde.

Learn how to uncover facts and colour from historical documents, manuscripts, newspapers and more.

Hear from Dr Deirdre O’Connell as she presents a lecture on her 2023 National Library Fellowship research about the extraordinary influence of Augusta 'Pakie' Macdougall who brought suffragist activism, Greenwich Village’s salon culture, and the Little Theatre movement to interwar Sydney.

Photographs by Jeff Carter of Australian life dating from the 1950s onwards, plus oral history recordings with about 40 individuals living in rural towns or properties.