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  • Online
  • Free

Danger, drama, action! How to write great adventure stories

Tuesday
Tue 19 Mar 2024, 10.00 am
  • series: Schools

In this quickfire writing workshop, students develop an adventure story and use writing techniques to keep readers on the edge of their seats.

  • Tour
  • Onsite

Preservation and conservation

Tuesday
Tue 19 Mar 2024, 2.00 pm
  • series: Inside the Library
​Come behind the scenes to see the Conservation Laboratory and the work undertaken by the Collection Care Branch.
a room filled with tables and chairs and conservation technology and equipment
  • Tour
  • Onsite
  • Free

Wadgayawa Nhay Dhadjan Wari (they made them a long time ago) tour

Tuesday
Tue 19 Mar 2024, 5.30 pm
  • series: Inside the Library

Explore our new exhibition, featuring Aboriginal belongings removed from Country over the last 230 years that have travelled back to Sydney.

Items from First Nations communities on display
  • Talk
  • Onsite

Openbook Autumn

Tuesday
Tue 19 Mar 2024, 6.00 pm
  • series: Live at the Bar

Delve into the latest issue of Openbook magazine and hear a panel of leading writers, poets and photographers talk about their creative journeys,...

A speaker stands on stage talking to a bar full of people
  • Exhibition
  • Free
  • On Site

Charles Rodius

17 Jun 2023 to 12 May 2024

Discover the story behind Australia's rejected and forgotten portrait artist, Charles Rodius (1802-1860).

Sydney Harbour from Cumberland Place watercolour
  • Exhibition
  • Free
  • On Site

Action! Film & War

7 Oct 2023 to 28 Apr 2024

An exhibition about the power of moving images to record and shape Australia’s history.

Black and white photograph of man with moving picture camera
  • Exhibition
  • Free
  • On Site

Nikon-Walkley Press Photography Exhibition

21 Oct 2023 to 28 Apr 2024

See the winners and finalists selected from the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism.

Nikon prize winner
  • Exhibition
  • Free
  • On Site

Wadgayawa Nhay Dhadjan Wari

7 Oct 2023 to 5 May 2024

(they made them a long time ago)

Collage of objects from the exhibition Wadgayawa Nhay Dhadjan Wari
  • Exhibition
  • Free
  • On Site

Shot

29 Oct 2023 to 3 Nov 2024

400 photographs | 200 photographers | 3 centuries

Composite image with three photographic images from the Shot exhibition
  • Exhibition
  • Ongoing
  • Free

Amaze Gallery

See an ever-changing display of remarkable items from the Library’s collection.

Colour sketch of streetscape
  • Exhibition
  • Ongoing
  • Free

Paintings from the Collection

More than 300 original artworks from the Library’s unique collection of landscape and portrait paintings.

Oil painting. Panoramic scene of a harbour.
  • Virtual excursion
  • Online
  • Free

The First Fleet

Wednesday
Wed 20 Mar 2024, 10.00 am
  • series: Schools

Set sail on this virtual excursion to discover more about the First Fleet.