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.