What's on in summer

National Gallery of Australia (ACT)

• California Cool: art in Los Angeles 1960s – 70s – until February 2019
• Yayoi Kusama: The Spirits Of The Pumpkins Descended Into The Heavens Immersive experience – from December 2018
• Love & Desire Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces from the Tate – 14 December 2018 to 28 April 2019
• Love & Desire Lecture: Lucina Ward – 15 December 2018

For the kids:

• Mini Members Party – 1 December 2018
• Create Space – 8, 15, 22, 29 January 2019

National Film and Sound Archive (ACT)

• The Vinyl Lounge + record fair – 7 December 2018
• Heath Ledger Season – until 10 February 2019
• Mad Max: Fury Road – Black And Chrome – 2 January 2019
• Animal Kingdom – 4 January 2019

For the kids:

• Summer School Holiday Screenings – 7 to 13 January 2018  
  • Puss in Boots – 7 January 2019
  • Felix the Cat: The Movie – 8 January 2019
  • Isle of Dogs – 10 January 2019
  • 101 Dalmatians – 11 January 2019
  • The Lion King – 12 January 2019

National Library of Australia (ACT)

• Cook and the Pacific – until 10 February 2019
• Beauty Rich and Rare – until 10 February 2019
• The Southern Ocean: Sailing and Navigation Lecture – 19 January 2019

National Museum of Australia (ACT)

• Rome: City and Empire – until 3 February 2019
• First Australian exhibition – ongoing
• Journeys exhibition – ongoing
• Bush Mechanics: The Exhibition – until 24 February 2019

For the kids:

• When in Rome summer school holiday activities – Weekdays 7 to 11 and 14 to 18 January 2019
• Kspace – Interactive game for children 5 to 12 year olds

National Portrait Gallery (ACT)

• Carte-o-mania! – until 22 April 2019
• 20/20: Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions – until 10 February 2019

For the kids:

• Little faces: Summer series – 4 to 7 December 2018
• Portrait Play: Who are you? – weekdays from 27 December 2018 to 1 February 2019

Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House (ACT)

• Breaking Through: 75 years of women in Parliament – ongoing
• Behind the Lines 2018: The year's best political cartoons – ongoing
• Magna Carta: An Australian Story – ongoing

For the kids:

• PlayUP: The Right to Have an Opinion and Be Heard – ongoing

Australian National Maritime Museum (NSW)

• On Sharks & Humanity – 11 December 2018 to June 2019
• The Women of River Country – ongoing
• New Year’s Eve at the Museum – 31 December 2018

For the kids:

• Creative workshops for kids 8-14 – 15 to 23 January 2019.

Bundanon Trust (NSW)

• Paul Dempsey solo acoustic show at the Boyd Education Centre – 19 January 2019

Image: John Everett Millais Ophelia 1851-52, oil on canvas, 76.2 x 111.8 cm, Presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894, Tate, © Tate, London 2018.