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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

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

Assistance animals welcome

Hearing induction loop

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

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

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

Assistance animals welcome

Hearing induction loop

A dark-haired women wearing glasses stands, smiling, in front of a gallery display

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

Join ArtsNational Canberra and Libby Melzer for a discussion about 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

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

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

Theatre

Talks and ideas

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