What’s on in May

National Gallery of Australia

• Music in the Turrell Skyspace – 1-5 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Music and Art for Lunch – 4 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art and Dementia: Friday with a Friend – 5 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• The Art of Speech: Australian Rhetoric in Music – 7 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Rendezvous with Art – 8, 29 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art for Lunch – 11, 18, 25 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art After Hours: Frank Stella: The Kenneth Tyler Print Collection – 11 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art Appreciation for Carers – 16 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• National Indigenous Art Triennial III: Defying Empire – 26 May to 10 September (Canberra, ACT)
• Curator’s Tour: NIAT III: Defying Empire – 26 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• NIAT III Artist Talks – 26 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• The 67 Referendum: In Conversation – 26 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• NIAT III Artist Talks – 27 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Get Your Weave On – 27-28 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Migration: Australian String Quarter National Tour – 28 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• 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)

Kids and family:

• Little Look at Art – 17 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Tales for the Very Young – 30 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

For more information visit the National Gallery of Australia.

National Museum of Australia

• Peninsula Tales – 1, 6, 7 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Harvest of Endurance: A Scroll and a Concert – 4 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Paddle Steamer Enterprise Inspection – 7, 13 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Spoil Mum this Mother's Day weekend - 13 - 14 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Object Club: Characters of Hobart – 19 May (Canberra, ACT)
• Evolution: Torres Strait Masks - 19 May - 23 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Museum Friends Welcome Tour – 20 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Sensory Objects: Curator for the Day – 22 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Radio National Panel Discussion: 67 Referendum – 24 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• A Change is Going to Come - 24 May 2017 - 30 January 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• National Reconciliation Week family activities - 27 May - 2 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Time Traveller’s Book Club: Second World War – 30 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Kaninjaku: Stories from the Canning Stock Route – Until June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Freewheeling: Cycling in Australia – Until 9 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

For more information visit the National Museum of Australia.

National Portrait Gallery

• National Photographic Portrait Prize 2017 – Until June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Half the Sky: The Sound of the Sexual Revolution – 3 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Collections in Focus: Brook Andrew – 6 May to 27 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Evensong – 13, 14 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Light Between Oceans – 14 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art and Dementia – 16 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Upstairs, Downstairs – 18 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Masterclass with George Fetting – 20 May (Canberra, ACT)
• Portrait Encounter: Woureddy and Trucaninny – 25 May (Canberra, ACT)
• National Reconciliation Week Highlights – 27 May to 3 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Drawn In: Luminescence Chamber Music Ensemble – 28 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Little Faces – 9-12 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

For more information visit the National Portrait Gallery.

Australian National Maritime Museum

• Battle of the Coral Sea – 6 May 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
• Celebrate Your Family’s History – 7 May 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
• Behind the Scenes – 11 May 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
• Japanese Mini Submarine 75^th Anniversary Tour – 28 May 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
• Lessons from the Arctic – Until 30 June 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
• Escape From Pompeii: The Untold Roman Rescue – Until 30 August 2017 (Sydney, NSW)

For more information visit the Australian National Maritime Museum.

National Film and Sound Archive

• Indigenous Milestones Revisited – Weekdays in May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• M*A*S*H – 3 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Vinyl Lounge – 5 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• NFSA Ghost Tour – 5 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Learning the Tricks of the Trade – Until 10 May 2017 (Canberra, 2017)
• Buy This! Ads Through The Years – 10 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Shorts From the Counterculture – 10 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour – 13-16 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• The Wild Bunch – 17 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• The Killing Fields + NFSA Restores: The Odd Angry Shot – 24 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Graham Kennedy: The King’s Other Side – 24-26 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Don’s Party + The Club – 26 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• No Vietnamese Ever Called me Nigger – 31 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

For more information visit the National Film and Sound Archive.

National Library of Australia

• The Unmourned By Meg and Tom Keneally – 3 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• The Unknown Judith Wright – 11 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• On War – 16 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Melodrama in Meiji Japan – 22 May to 27 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Finding Passenger Lists – 23 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Who Shafted Les Darcy – 24 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Curator Talk with Gary Hickey – 24 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Social Media for Genealogists – 31 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Book Launch: Australian Lives – 31 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Athol Shmith Fashion Photographs – Until 25 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• National Simultaneous Storytime – 24 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

For more information visit the National Library of Australia.        

Museum of Australian Democracy

• The Speaker, the Journalist and AFL: In conversation with the Hon Tony Smith MP and Paul Daley – 2 May 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Onetoeight: Australia’s First Prime Ministers – (Canberra, ACT)
• Behind the Lines 2016: The Year’s Best Political Cartoons – (Canberra, ACT)
• Dress Code Empire – (Canberra, ACT)
• Face Up – (Canberra, ACT)
• Magna Carta: An Australian Story – (Canberra, ACT)
• Happy and Glorious – (Canberra, ACT)
• Art is a Weapon – (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Play Up – (Canberra ACT)

For more information visit the Museum of Australian Democracy.

Bundanon Trust

• Gary Warner: Soundtracker – Until 7 May 2017 (Bundanon, NSW)
• Anne Ferran: Intimate Journals – Until 28 May 2017 (Bundanon, NSW)

For more information visit the Bundanon Trust.