What’s on in August

National Gallery of Australia

• Art for lunch—3, 10, 17, 24, 31 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Descriptive tour Namatjira—5 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Australian String Quartet national Tour: Homeward—6 August (Canberra, ACT)
• Auslan sign-interpreted tour of Namatjira—6 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Out of the box—8 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Rendezvous with art—14 and 28 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art appreciation for carers—15 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Assisted tour of Defying Empire—24 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art after hours—24 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Installation Pipilotti Rist: Worry will vanish revelation—until 20 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Rodel Tapaya: New art from the Philippines—until 20 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial—until 10 September 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Frank Stella The Kenneth Tyler Print Collection—until 22 October 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Australian Impressionism—until 31 October 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Namatjira: Painting Country—until 19 November 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Mexican Modernism—until 26 November 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• stART with art—7 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Little look at ART—16 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Drawesome—20 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Tales for the very young—29 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• NGA Play: Reko Rennie —14 May to 3 December 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

For more information visit the National Gallery of Australia's website.

National Museum of Australia

• New members welcome tour—12 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Night at the Museum: Uncharted—18 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Sensory objects: Pleasures of play—21 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• A Change is Gonna Come—until 30 January 2018 (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• David Attenborough's VR Experiences—August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO Bricks—until 8 October 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

For more information visit the National Museum of Australia's website.

National Portrait Gallery

• New friends—1 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Winter festival—6 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Evensong—12 and 13 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Art and dementia—15 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Portrait encounter: Derek Denton by Evert Ploeg—17 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Poetic Portraits: A workshop with Sarah Rice—20 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Archibald Prize bus trip 2017—24 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Canberra Writers Festival—25 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Collection in Focus: Brook Andrew—until 27 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Forgotten—31 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Dempsey's people highlights—until 22 October 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Collections highlights tour—until 24 December 2017  (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Little Faces: Winter Series—1 to 4 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Drawn in: Carl St Jacques, violin—27 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

For more information visit the National Portrait Gallery's website.

Australian National Maritime Museum

• Lustre—until 13 August 2017 (Sydney, NSW)

• Escape from Pompeii—until 3 September 2017 (Sydney, NSW)

• Aurora—until 30 September 2017 (Sydney, NSW)

• Wildlife Photographer of the Year—until 9 October 2017 (Sydney, NSW)

• The Hartog Plate—until 29 October 2017 (Sydney, NSW)

Kids and family:

• Explore Escape from Pompeii – until 30 August 2017 (Sydney, NSW)

• Kids on Deck—ongoing (Sydney, NSW)

• Cabinet of Curiosities—ongoing (Sydney, NSW)

• Family Fun Sunday—ongoing (Sydney, NSW)

• Sea-Side Strollers Tour—until 8 August 2017 (Sydney, NSW)

• Kids Activity Backpacks—until 30 August 2017 (Sydney, NSW)

• Mini Mariners—ongoing (Sydney, NSW)

For more information visit the Australian National Maritime Museum's website.

National Film and Sound Archive

• Daily Program: August—1 to 31 August 2017, weekdays only (Canberra, ACT)

• Bad Boy Bubby—2 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• NFSA Ghost tour—4 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Elvis: That's the way it is—4 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Blue Suede Vinyl Lounge—4 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• The Breaking of the Drought—9 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• National Science Week: Hedy lamarr—Hollywood Inventor—16 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Samson and Delilah (4K)—16 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Banned Bushrangers—Double Feature—23 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• The Year my Voice Broke + Flirting—26 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• The Man from Hong Kong—30 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

For more information visit the National Film and Sound Archive's website.

National Library of Australia

• Melodrama in Meiji Japan—until 27 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Waving the Red Flag: Chinese Posters 1949—1976—until 2 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)

• Author Talk with Rusty Young—2 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Using Microform Readers—3 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Stories from the Sandstone—3 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Coffee with a Curator—4 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Fellowship Presentation: Poetry and Public Apology—8 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Author talk with David Haskell—9 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Getting started @ the Library—10 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• 2017 Kenneth Myer Lecture—10 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Winter Tales with Louise Page—13 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Maps for Family History—15 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• 8 August 1918 from the German side—15 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Family Jewels or Pandora's Box?—23 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Canberra Writers Festival—25 to 27 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Fellowship Presentation: In the Eyes of Their Foes—29 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Book Launch: Proof—30 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Escape to Everywhere: CBCA Book Week—18 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

For more information visit the National Library of Australia's website.

Museum of Australian Democracy

• Canberra Writers Festival—25 to 27 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Yes: The Ongoing Story of the 1967 Referendum—ongoing (Canberra, ACT)

• The Opening Day: 9 May 1927—ongoing (Canberra, ACT)

• Finders Keepers: Collectors and their Stories—ongoing (Canberra, ACT)

• Onetoeight: Australia's First Prime Ministers—ongoing (Canberra, ACT)

• Behind the Lines 2016: The Year's Best Political Cartoons—ongoing (Canberra, ACT)

• Dress Code: Empire—ongoing (Canberra, ACT)

• Magna Carta: An Australian Story—ongoing (Canberra, ACT)

• Happy and Glorious—ongoing (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Play Up—ongoing (Canberra, ACT)

• Mystery Tour Party Games—ongoing (Canberra, ACT)

For more information visit the Museum of Australian Democracy's website.

Bundanon Trust

• Nolan 100—1917–2017—until 28 January 2018 (Bundanon, NSW)

• Bundanon Open Days—every Sunday (Bundanon, NSW)

For more information visit 

Bundanon Trust's

website.