Events

Children seated at a table doing craft activities

School holiday activity: Our Treasures, your treasures - 28 January, 10:30am

28 Jan 2026 | 10:30am - 11:30am

*Booked out*

This holidays, step into the magic of our refreshed Treasures Gallery and create your own keepsake box to store your personal treasures.

Kids and families

Ferguson Room

Education/learning

For kids and families

School holiday event

Booked out

Assistance animals welcome

Hearing induction loop

School holiday activity: Our Treasures, your treasures - 28 January, 2:00pm

28 Jan 2026 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm

*Booked out*

This holidays, step into the magic of our refreshed Treasures Gallery and create your own keepsake box to store your personal treasures.

Kids and families

Ferguson Room

Education/learning

For kids and families

School holiday event

Booked out

Assistance animals welcome

Hearing induction loop

Exhibitions team member Nicole Schwirtlich in the galleries

Learn with the curators of the Treasures Gallery

04 Feb 2026 | 12:30pm - 1:00pm

Join our live webinar to go behind the scenes of our refreshed Treasures Gallery.

Online

Education/learning

Workshops and seminars

G.W. Wilson & Co, Portrait of Charles Dickens, c.1870, nla.obj-142385853; and book cover, Great Writers & The Cats Who Owned Them, by Susannah Fullerton

Author talk: Great Writers & the Cats Who Owned Them

05 Feb 2026 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Susannah Fullerton discusses her newest book Great Writers & the Cats Who Owned Them.

Foyer

Online

Theatre

Books and authors

Author talk

Assistance animals welcome

Hearing induction loop

Wheelchair accessible

A colourful illustration of an open book with rainbow edged pages

Aaron Miller, Jodah's Codex, 2022

Wizardly tomes, mysterious manuscripts and cursed volumes

09 Feb 2026 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Explore 'Pop Bibliography', the representation of rare and historic books across popular culture with special collections curator Allie Alvis.

Online

Theatre

Talks and ideas

The 1297 inspeximus issue of the Magna Carta owned by the Australian nation. Courtesy of the Australian Department of Parliamentary Services.

Conservation of the Australian copy of the Magna Carta

10 Feb 2026 | 6:00pm - 7:45pm

ArtsNational Canberra and Libby Melzer present a lecture examining the 1297 inspeximus issue of the Magna Carta in the collection of the Parliament of Australia.

Foyer

Theatre

Talks and ideas

Various blue collage images of Tim Ross and Kevin McCloud with their show's branding, which incudes red and blue lines.

Live in interesting places with Tim Ross and Kevin McCloud - 15 February, 2pm

15 Feb 2026 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Join Tim Ross and Kevin McCloud for an in-conversation about architecture and design.

**Booked out**

Theatre

Talks and ideas

Booked out

Assistance animals welcome

Hearing induction loop

Wheelchair accessible

Live in interesting places with Tim Ross and Kevin McCloud - 15 February, 6pm

15 Feb 2026 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Join Tim Ross and Kevin McCloud for an in-conversation about architecture and design.

**Booked out**

Theatre

Talks and ideas

Booked out

Assistance animals welcome

Hearing induction loop

Wheelchair accessible

Live in interesting places with Tim Ross and Kevin McCloud - 16 February, 7pm

16 Feb 2026 | 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join Tim Ross and Kevin McCloud for an in-conversation about architecture and design.

**Booked out**

Theatre

Talks and ideas

Booked out

Assistance animals welcome

Hearing induction loop

Wheelchair accessible

A woman stands in the centre of this image, looking to the left and smiling. She is in front of an aeroplane and wearing a jacket.

Large photograph of Freda Thompson in flight gear, holding cap and googles, from the Papers of Freda Thompson, c. 1934, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3923190274

Coffee with the Curator and Conservator: Treasures Insights

18 Feb 2026 | 10:30am - 12:00pm

Join the Friends of the Library and delve into the Library's 2025 Treasures Gallery refresh.

Ground floor

Treasures Gallery

Friends of the Library event

Collection talk

Assistance animals welcome

Wheelchair accessible

Etching of mythical sea creatures and a figure preparing to jump into the sea

Britomartis jumps into the sea, image courtesy Lorna Hutson

England's 'island nationhood?' with Professor Lorna Hutson

19 Feb 2026 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Professor Lorna Hutson examines early modern legal and poetic texts to explore the concept of England's 'island nationhood'.

Online

Theatre

Talks and ideas

Assistance animals welcome

Hearing induction loop

Wheelchair accessible

A short haired woman with black rimmed glasses in a checkered, button down shirt, smiling at the camera

2025 Creative Arts Fellow Julie Gough

Enaction Plan: Reassembling the past with Julie Gough

26 Feb 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Julie Gough will discuss her recent Fellowship research focusing on colonial collections and their role in shaping Tasmanian Aboriginal histories.

Online

Theatre

First Australians

Talks and ideas

Fellowship talk

Assistance animals welcome

Hearing induction loop

Wheelchair accessible

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