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Discover Collections partners

Discover Collections is made possible through the generous support of the following partners and benefactors.

Arrival of Modernism

Australian Jewish community and culture

Aviation in Australia

Botanica: illustrating the exotic

Geoffrey & Rachel O'Conor

Caergwrle, Allynbrook

Peter and Ellie Hunt

Cricket in Australia

Sir Ron Brierley

A day at the races

The Dixson map collection digitisation project

Geoffrey & Rachel O'Conor

Graham & Charlene Bradley Foundation

Rob Thomas

and numerous other benefactors

Exploration

Eureka! The rush for gold

The French in Australia

The Holtermann Collection

Graham & Charlene Bradley Foundation

Simon & Catriona Mordant

Geoffrey & Rachel O'Conor

and numerous other benefactors

Hurley's Antarctica

Graham & Charlene Bradley Foundation

Indigenous Australians

Law & justice in Australia

Looking east - Darling Point & beyond

Belinda Hutchinson AM & Roger Massy-Greene

Looking north

Geoffrey & Rachel O'Conor

The Macquarie era

Modern Antarctic adventures

Mark Burrows AO

Religion, church and missions

Seidler collection

Harry Seidler AC OBE & Penelope Seidler

Sydney exposed

Temples of commerce

Terra Australis to Australia

Voyages of discovery

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Visionaries

The Library Visionaries is a new group of supporters who are keen to make a difference to our children's educational future through digital learning.

New to Discover

Australian agricultural and rural life

Thomas Livingstone Mitchell: mapmaker

Recent additions

Alexander Dalrymple

Coming soon

Shipboard : the 19th century emigrant experience

May Gibbs: an Australian classic