What’s on in June

National Gallery of Australia

• Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial

  —26 May to 10 September 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Descriptive tour of Defying Empire—3 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Auslan sign-interpreted tour of Defying Empire—4 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Winter Film Series 2017—7 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Winter Film Series: Citizen Jane: Battle for the city—7 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art for lunch—8, 15, 22, 29 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Out of the Box—13 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Winter Film Series: China's van Goghs—14 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Yoga for lunch—19 to 23 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art appreciation for carers—20 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Winter film series: Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the devil—21 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Coffee with the curator (Defying Empire)—22 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Rendezvous with art—26 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Assisted tour (Pipilotti Rist: Worry will vanish and Rodel Tapaya: New art from the Philippines) —28 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Winter film series: Dries—28 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Artists of the Great War—until June 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)

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

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

Kids and family

• stART with art—5 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Drawsome—18 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Little look at ART—21 June 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

• A Change is Gonna Come—24 May 2017 to 30 January 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Thereabouts film screening—4 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Sensory Objects: Blood, Sweat and Gears—19 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Time Traveller's Book Club: The Isles—27 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Object Club: Characters of Hobart—30 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Evolution: Torres Strait Masks—until 23 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family

• Freewheeling—until 9 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

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

National Portrait Gallery

• Canberra Symphony Orchestra Museum Portraits—1 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• National Reconciliation Week highlights—until 3 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Collections highlights tour—4 June to 24 December 2017  (Canberra, ACT)

• Dark Light, See What I See—17 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• National Photographic Portrait Prize 2017—until 18 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

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

• Dempsey's People: A Folio of British Street Portraits 1824–1844—from 29 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Little Faces: Winter Series—6 and 7 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

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

Australian National Maritime Museum

• Wildlife Photographer of the Year—31 May to 9 October 2017 (Sydney, NSW)

• Vivid Sydney 2017: Inspired by the Sea—until 17 June 2017 (Sydney, NSW)

• Lessons from the Arctic—until 30 June 2017 (Sydney, NSW)

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

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

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

Kids and family

• 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

• In Conversation: Christine Anu—2 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Looking for Richard & Chimes at Midnight—7 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Ran—14 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Essential Kurosawa: Selected by David Stratton—14 to 30 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Throne of Blood—16 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Yojimbo—16 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Kagemusha—19 and 22 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Seven Samurai—23 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Rashomon 4K—26 and 30 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• High and Low—28 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Graham Kennedy: The King collection online exhibition—ongoing 

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)

• Using Microform Readers—1 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Book Launch: Cities—5 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Getting Started @ the Library—6 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Author Talk with Hugh Mackay—6 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• On War—Battle of Messines—7 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Fellowship Presentation: Knowledge of the Library's Maori Collection—13 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Asian Collections— 14 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Winter Tales with Karen Middleton—18 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Trove for Family History—20 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Collection Talk: Indigenous Lives—20 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• In Conversation: Capital Ideas—27 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

• Life and Death: Dorothy English Paty—28 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

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

Museum of Australian Democracy

• Finders Keepers: Collectors and their Stories—opens 10 June 2017 (Canberra ACT)

• The Opening Day: 9 May 1927—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)

• Art is a Weapon—ongoing (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family

• Play Up—ongoing (Canberra, ACT)

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

• Sunday Crafternoons: One Million Stars to End Violence—25 June 2017 (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)

• The Necks—25 June 2017 (Bundanon, NSW)

For more information visit Bundanon Trust's website.