What’s on in March
It’s cooling down but there is still plenty to see and do at our national institutions.
The Enlighten Canberra Festival will be running from 3 to 12 March featuring architectural projections on some of our iconic national buildings including Old Parliament House, the National Library of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery of Australia.
National Gallery of Australia
- Versailles: Treasures from the Palace exhibition – until 17 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Art for lunch – 2 March 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Art and dementia: Friday with a friend – 3 March 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Luxury at Versailles – 3, 10 March 2017 (Canberra ACT)
- The social dance of Versailles: A journey through French courtly dance – 5 March 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Meet the Maker: Hugh Withycombe, fine-stringer instrument maker – 10 March 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Enchanted Isles, Fatal Shores: Living Versailles – 17-18 March 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Early morning viewing and petit dejeuner – 23 March 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
Kids and family:
- NGA Play – until 17 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
For more information visit the National Gallery of Australia.
National Museum of Australia
- Paddle Steamer Enterprise inspection – 4, 12, 18, 26 March 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Sundaze at the Museum Bar – 5, 12, 19, 26 March 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Handling objects: Power of pets – 20 March 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Parks Changing Australia – until 30 April 2017 (Canberra ACT)
- Kaninjaku: Stories from the Canning Stock Route – Until June 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)
- After Dark Popular Pet Show – 3, 4, 10, 11 March (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)
Kids and family:
- Little Faces – 7 and 8 March 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
For more information visit the National Portrait Gallery.
Australian National Maritime Museum
- Lessons from the Arctic – until 30 June 2017 (Sydney NSW)
- Dogs and Cats – until 17 April 2017 (Sydney NSW)
For more information visit the Australian National Maritime Museum.
National Film and Sound Archive
- Backs to the Blast/Silent Storm – Weekdays, March 2017 – (Canberra ACT)
- The Vinyl Lounge – 3 March 2017 (Canberra ACT)
- You Can Jive: 40 Years of ABBAmania – 5 March 2017 (Canberra ACT)
- They Live! Visions from the Atomic Age – Wednesdays, March 2017 (Canberra ACT)
- Godzilla, King of Monsters – 8 March 2017 (Canberra ACT)
- Bold – 11 March 2017 (Canberra ACT)
- On The Beach – 15 March (Canberra ACT)
- NFSA Restores: Sons of Matthew – 17 March (Canberra ACT)
- Art, Not Apart – 18 March 2017 (Canberra ACT)
- The Return of Captain Invincible + The Incredible Shrinking Man – 22 March 2017 (Canberra ACT)
- Illusions of Light – 29 March 2017 (Canberra ACT)
- Invaders from Mars + The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms – 29 March 2017 (Canberra ACT)
- NFSA Restores: Shame – 30 March 2017 (Canberra ACT)
- Red Hollywood (Remastered, Re-edited) – 31 March 2017 (Canberra ACT)
For more information visit the National Film and Sound Archive.
National Library of Australia
- In Conversation with Charlotte Wood – 8 March 2017 (Canberra ACT)
- The Bold Festival – 9 March 2017 (Canberra ACT)
- The Sell Dinner – 10 March 2017 (Canberra ACT)
- 2017 Canberra Day Oration – 12 March 2017 (Canberra ACT)
- Capital Ideas – Energy – 15 March 2017 (Canberra ACT)
- Behind Glass Doors – 20 March 2017 (Canberra ACT)
- Australian Scientists in Fiction – 21 March 2017 (Canberra ACT)
- Utopia 500 – 28 March 2017 (Canberra ACT)
- Only By Caroline Baum – 30 March (Canberra ACT)
- The Sell exhibition – until 25 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
- Athol Shmith fashion photographs – until 25 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
For more information visit the National Library of Australia.
Museum of Australian Democracy
- Onetoeight: Australia's first Prime Ministers (Canberra, ACT)
- 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)
- Late Night Openings at the Museum of Australian Democracy – 3, 4, 10, 11 March (Canberra ACT)
Kids and family:
- For the Record – 3, 4, 10, 11 March (Canberra ACT)
For more information visit the Museum of Australian Democracy.
Bundanon Trust
- Anne Ferran, Intimate Journals – until 26 March 2017 (Bundanon, NSW)
For more information visit Bundanon Trust.