What’s on in February

National Gallery of Australia

• Art and dementia –  2 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• David Hockney: Prints party –  2 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• From Plate to Press to Paper workshop –  3 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art + Sound –  3 and 17 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• A Bigger Splash – 3 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Life drawing –  4 and 11 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Assisted tour of Angelica Mesiti – 7 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Coffee with the Curator: David Hockney Prints – 15 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art Deco – from 16 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Descriptive tour of Angelica Mesiti – 17 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Hyper Real – until 18 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art for lunch – 22 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Dancing Dieties – 23 and 24 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Auslan sign-interpreted tour of Angelica Mesiti – 25 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Russian avant-garde – until 4 March 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Otto Dix and August Sander: War, people, landscape – until 4 March 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Angelica Mesiti – until 2 April 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Namatijira Painting country – until 2 April 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Arthur Streeton; The Art of War – until 29 April 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• David Hockney prints – until 27 May 2018 (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• stART with art –  5 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• NGA Play: Indieguerillas –  open daily February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)

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

National Museum of Australia

• PS Enterprise: Public inspection – 3, 11, 17, 25 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Word for word: Songlines – 4 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Printmaking workshop – 11 and 18 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Midawarr I Harvest: Artist talk with John Wolseley – 13 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Midawarr I Harvest – until 18 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• 2018 Australian of the Year – until 18 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Living Songlines symposium – 23 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters – until 25 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Introducing our toddler program – until 7 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)

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

National Portrait Gallery

• Such is life! Starstruck Summer Nights  – 2 and 9 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Starstruck ‘Tawdry Tales’ after dark tours: Late night opening – 2 and 9 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• In a flash – 10, 11, 18 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Vintage Photography Masterclass – 10 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art and dementia – 13 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Highlights tour in Mandarin – 18 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Silver Screen Masquerade – 23 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• 20^th Birthday Party – 25 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Starstruck highlights – until 4 March 2018 (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Portrait play: Tell me your story – 1 and 2 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Studio Starstruck – until 4 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Little faces: Summer series – 6 to 9 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)

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

Australian National Maritime Museum

• Gapu-Monuk Saltwater – ongoing (Sydney, NSW)
• Maritime Moustaches – ongoing (Sydney, NSW)
• Treasures of the American Collection – ongoing (Sydney, NSW)
• Behind the Scenes Tour – ongoing (Sydney, NSW)
• Arctic Voices – until 1 May 2018 (Sydney, NSW)
• Waves and Water: Australian Beach Photography – until 24 June 2018 (Sydney, NSW)
• Container: The Box that Changed the World – until 4 July 2018 (Sydney, NSW)

Kids and family:

• Kids on Deck – ongoing (Sydney, NSW)
• Cabinet of Curiosities – ongoing (Sydney, NSW)
• Family Fun Sunday – ongoing (Sydney, NSW)
• Mini Mariners – ongoing (Sydney, NSW)

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

National Film and Sound Archive

• The Vinyl Lounge –  2 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Discussing Russell Mulcahy –  7 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• NFSA Ghost Tour –  9 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Winter of our Dreams –  14 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Tracey Moffatt Double Feature –  21 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Dad and Dave Come to Town –  23 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Stars in the Suburbs –  25 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Thank God he met Lizzie –  28 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits – until 4 March 2018 (Canberra, ACT)

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

National Library of Australia

• Book Launch: Dancing Home – 1 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Waving the Red Flag: Chinese posters 1949 – 1976 – until 2 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Book Launch: Fighting on all Fronts – 6 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Using Microform Readers – 7 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Sister Suffragettes – 9 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Digital Discoveries for Researchers – 14 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Anne Deveson’s ‘Paper Trails’ – 15 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• On War – 19 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Gonski 2.0 Review – 20 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Treasures Collection Talk – 22 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Film Screening: Tell Them We Are Rising – 24 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Friends Exhibition Preview: 1968 Changing Times – 27 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Trove for Family History – 28 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)

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

Museum of Australian Democracy

• Finding and Keeping Collections and Stories: Behind the Scenes tour – 21 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• The Gift: Art, Artefacts and Arrivals – ongoing (Canberra, ACT)
• Magna Carta: An Australian Story – ongoing (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 2017: The Year’s Best Political Cartoons – ongoing (Canberra, ACT)
• Dress Code: Empire – ongoing (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• PlayUP: The Right to Have an Opinion and Be Heard – ongoing (Canberra, ACT)

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

Bundanon Trust

• Nolan 100 – 1917-2017 – until 15 April 2018 (Bundanon, NSW)
• Bundanon Open Days – every Sunday (Bundanon, NSW)

For more information visit Bundanon Trust’s website.