What's on: January 2021

If you'd rather stay in the comfort of your own home or are interstate and unable to visit in person, there is also lots of activities to enjoy online.

Check out some of the highlights of what's on during summer and the school holidays:

Museum of Australian Democracy (ACT)

• Indigenous experiences of democracy tour—10, 17, 24 January
• Behind the lines 2020: The year in political cartoons

Kids and family:

• PlayUP: The right to have an opinion and be heard

Online offering:

• For the record #HansART

National Film and Sound Archive (ACT)

• Daily program: Vintage Australia—daily
• Black screen daily program—11am and 1.30pm
• Jurassic Park—15 January, 10.30am
• Puberty Blues—16 January, 2pm

Kids and family:

• My Neighbour Totoro—5 January, 10.30am
• The Secret World of Arrietty—6 January 10.30am
• Ponyo—7 January, 10.30am
• Kiki's Delivery Service—8 January, 10.30am
• Sonic the Hedgehog—11 January, 10.30am
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids—12 January, 10.30am
• Jumanji—13 January, 10.30am
• The Witches—14 January, 10.30am

National Gallery of Australia (ACT)

• Know my name: Australian women artists 1900 to now—until 4 July
• Thursday art talk: G.W Bot—7 January
• Thursday art talk: eX de Medici—21 January, 12.45pm

Online offerings:

• Thursday art talk: Genevieve Grieves—14 January, 12.45pm

Kids and family:

• Art from home

National Library of Australia (ACT)

• Birds of paradise: Ellis Rowan in New Guinea—until 8 March

National Museum of Australia (ACT)

• Endeavour voyage—until 26 April

Kids and family:

• Object stories: Australian of the Year activity—weekdays, 11 to 22 January
• Family trails—daily until 28 February

National Portrait Gallery (ACT)

• Relaxed mornings—17 January, 9am
• My place dance performance—daily from 21 January to 24 January, 11am, 12pm, 1.30pm
• Pub Rock—until 14 February 2021
• Before hand: the private life of a portrait—until 21 March 2021

For kids and family:

• Family space: Move it!—daily from 26 December to 31 January
• Story time—6 January, 10.30am and 2pm

Online offerings:

• Story time online—27 January, 10.30am

Australian National Maritime Museum (NSW)

• Wildlife photographer of the year—until 28 January
• High tea on Ena—17 January, 11am, 1pm, 3pm and 5pm

Kids and family:

• Badu by Erth family theatre show—6 to 24 January
• Ocean lab—daily until 26 January
• Mini mariners—selected Tuesdays and one Saturday each month
• Kids on deck—daily, until 25 January
• Secrets of the sea trail

Bundanon Trust (NSW)

• We need to talk about fire—until February

Image credit: Australian National Maritime Museum