Applications for 2024 National Library of Australia Fellowships, Creative Arts Fellowships and the Folk Fellowship open on 3 March 2023.

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This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: The Arts for years 5 & 6 students.

Circus, magic and mime, and puppetry

Applications for 2026 National Library of Australia Fellowships and Creative Arts Fellowships open on 17 March 2025.

About 5,000 books, pamphlets and periodicals, over 11,000 paintings, drawings and prints, around 800 maps and over 300 manuscripts mostly published 1770–1900. Largely relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific including Antarctica.

Congratulations to the 12 recipients of the 2024 National Library of Australia Fellowships, Creative Arts Fellowships and National Folk Fellowship.

Paintings, drawings, sketchbooks and manuscripts by George French Angas.

The Fellowships aimed to promote the Library as a centre of scholarly activity and research, and encourage the use and promotion of the Library's rich and varied collections. It supported 150 researchers until 2014 when it was replaced by the Fellowships and Scholarships program.

Portfolio Budget Statements inform Senators and Members of Parliament of the proposed allocation of resources to Government outcomes by agencies within the portfolio.

With a generous bequest from Frank van Straten AM, the Library has brought Jim Sharman’s visual diaries and an original Rocky Horror Picture Show script online for the 50th anniversary of the film’s release.