By donating to digitise our physical collections, you can help make the treasures of the National Library freely available to everyone, all the time.

If you own a valuable or significant cultural work such as a painting, or a manuscript or a collection of photographs, and would like to donate them, we’d love to hear from you. Artworks, manuscripts, and collections of photographs all help to tell the history of Australia.

By donating to digitise our physical collections, you can help make the treasures of the National Library freely available to everyone, all the time.

We're calling on you to help us collect campaign material from the 2023 Referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.

With your support, a new generation of thinkers can use our collections to create important and transformative works.

Create a legacy and join the Hazel de Berg circle by making a bequest to the Library.

Find out about President of the Myer Foundation, Rupert Myer AO, keynote speech at the Library’s 2024 Patron Dinner.

With the Opalgate Foundation’s support, we are creating a new lifelong learning space on our website.

We welcome offers of collection material. Find out how you can make an offer.

Thanks to a gift from the Susan and Isaac Wakil Foundation, we are digitising performing arts material from our incredible collection.

Learn about one of our largest manuscripts collections.

Help researchers, young scholars and artists immerse themselves in our unique collections to create new knowledge and transformative works.