What's on in February
There are a range of exhibitions, workshops, screenings and activities for children and adults to explore at our national institutions throughout February 2017.
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National Gallery of Australia
- Versailles: Treasures from the Palace exhibition—until 17 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Art for lunch—2, 9, 16, 23 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Art and dementia: Friday with a friend—3 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- On Gesture lecture and music—4 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Marie-Antoinette high tea—5 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- The king's passions: The music and art of Versailles concert—11 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Deceived by fashion—18 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- NGA Book Club—22 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Marie-Antoinette and the harp: Canberra Symphony orchestra—25 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Sculpture Garden Sunday—26 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
Kids and family:
- NGA Play— until 17 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Drawsome—19 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
For more information visit the National Gallery of Australia.
National Museum of Australia
- Paddle Steamer Enterprise inspection—4, 12, 18, 26 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Sundaze at the Museum Bar—5, 12, 19, 26 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Museum Friends welcome tour—18 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Freewheeling, Scienceworks, Melbourne—until 5 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Happy Birthday Play School, Gold Coast City Gallery—until 5 February 2017 (Gold Coast, QLD)
- Warakurna, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW —until 5 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Handling objects: Curator for the day—20 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
For more information visit the National Museum of Australia.
National Portrait Gallery
- Popular Pet Show highlights tour—until 13 March 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Digital Portraiture Awards—until 9 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Awesome Achievers: Stories from Australians of the Year—until 26 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Evensong—11, 12 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Late night opening, Fridays in summer—every Friday until March 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- New Friends tour—7 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Crème Valaze—12 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Art and dementia—21 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
Kids and family:
- Little Faces—7 to 10 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
Australian National Maritime Museum
- Explore Voyage to the Deep— until 19 February 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
National Film and Sound Archive
- The vinyl lounge—3 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Cemetery of splendour—3 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Season: new romantics—3 to 24 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Season: lost horizons—Frank Capra's America—5 to 26 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Lost Horizon—5 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- NFSA Restores: Three Days To Live—5 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Eisenstein In Guanajuato—10 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- It Happened One Night—12 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- American Madness—12 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Under Electric Clouds—17 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- The Miracle Woman—19 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- The Bitter Tea Of General Yen—19 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Mahana—24 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- It's A Wonderful Life—26 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Prelude to War - 26 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
National Library of Australia
- The Sell exhibition—until 25 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Athol Shmith fashion photographs—until 25 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Using microform readers—2 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Shooting the Picture—2 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Pinafores, Prodigies and Precocities—7 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- The Story of Australia’s People (Geoffrey Blainey)—8 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Révolution Française!—9 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- The Manuscripts Collection—14 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Fight Like a Girl (Clementine Ford)—16 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- State of Hope—Griffith Review—21 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Study Smart—23 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Author Talk with Madeleine Thein—28 February 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
Museum of Australian Democracy
- Ajit Ninan: cartoonist to the world's largest democracy (Canberra, ACT)
- DRESS CODE: EMPIRE (Canberra, ACT)
- Memories of the Struggle (Canberra, ACT)
- Face Up (Canberra, ACT)
- Magna Carta—An Australian Story (Canberra, ACT)
- PLAY UP—The Right to Shelter (Canberra, ACT)
- Happy and Glorious (Canberra, ACT)
- Art is a Weapon (Canberra, ACT)
Bundanon Trust
- Gawurra and William Crighton—25 February 2017 (Riversdale, NSW)
- The Lady and the Unicorn 2016—2018 Tour—until 26 February 2017 (Penrith, NSW)
- Anne Ferran, Intimate Journals—until 26 March 2017 (Bundanon, NSW)