The Latest Breaking News from National Museum of Australia

Artefacts from disasters across the country feature in a striking National Museum exhibit that showcases the power of nature.

It may have only taken seconds of planning, but one spare-of-the-moment portrait by Wayne Quilliam has won this year's National Photographic Portrait Prize.

What is Canberra's ultimate tourist experience?

What is love? It can be a complicated question to answer but that's what attracted Luka Lesson to it.

While one more A$20 million round of the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund was announced as part of the 2022-23 budget to support reactivating the arts and entertainment sector post-Covid-19 lockdowns, this scheme is coming to an end.

It was a hit at the National Museum of Australia. Now Songlines has caused a stir in the UK, and is now headed to Berlin and Paris.

Renowned Kimberley artist Rover Thomas' painting, Jabanunga Goorialla (the Rainbow Serpent), is donated to the National Museum of Australia.

The painting will 'entrance' NMA visitors, the council chair said.

As any museum curator will attest, it's not easy to collect history, especially when it's still happening all around us.