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UNESCO 6 Exhibition Stories about our UNESCO World Heritage collections, displayed together for the very first time.

Paintings from the Collection Exhibition More than 300 original artworks of landscape and portrait paintings on permanent public display.

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The Magic Pudding

by Sarah Morley

In October 1918 Angus & Robertson published what would become one of Australia’s best known children’s stories: The Magic Pudding.

Henry Beaufoy Merlin: Australian showman and photographer

by Geoff Barker

In 1951 one of Australia’s most significant collections of nineteenth-century photographs was found in a garden shed in Chatswood, Sydney.

Photographer Mr Merlin

From Terra Australis to Australia

Discover the original journals, logbooks, letters, paintings and drawings covering the voyage of the First Fleet, the mutiny on the Bounty and Matthew Flinders' journeys.

Dorothea Mackellar's My Country

"I love a sunburnt country": Learn the history of one of Australia's best loved poems.

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