Celebrate William Shakespeare's birthday with Shakespearean gems from the National Library's rare books collections.

Dr Georgia Pike-Rowney presented a participatory musical lecture on her 2020 National Library Fellowship research about community singing in interwar Australia.

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

Season one of the Bookmark This podcast, Off Stage, explores the vibrant characters, milestone moments and cultural treasures found in the exhibition On Stage: Spotlight on Our Performing Arts. Hosted by journalist, author, radio broadcaster and playwright Melanie Tait, Off Stage delves into the untold stories of Australia theatre, dance, music and film.

The music collection contains over 300,000 musical scores and the largest collection of music research resources in Australia.

In this two hour workshop, participants had an opportunity to create, design and build their own board game that they could take home with them.

A workshop inspired by the Library's Viewfinder exhibition and the Canberra and Region Heritage Festival theme of Sharing Stories.

The map includes details of the first sighting of Tasmania by Europeans and the first mapping of New Zealand.

To celebrate this milestone, we are sharing 3 recently acquired photographs of the band

While Indigenous Australians have inhabited the continent for tens of thousands of years, and traded with nearby islanders, the first documented landing on Australia by a European was in 1606.