What’s On

Stories and characters from much-loved Australian picture books come to life in this celebration of children’s literature. 

This major exhibition takes a queer lens to the State Library’s vast collection and shares more than 20 untold stories that celebrate LGBTQI+...

Over 30,000 spectators. Countless sporting heroes. One tournament. Take a front row seat in this major celebration of First Nations sporting...

Current highlights include William Yang’s Sydneyphiles Reimagined.

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

Deborah Lee-Talbot addresses Phyllis Mander-Jones’s surveying of Pacific records as Australia sought to define its national identity.

Hear celebrated photographer William Yang discuss his breakthrough exhibition Sydneyphiles, followed by a conversation with Benjamin Law.

Take a walk with us and investigate our land’s unique geography.

Learn how to think like a historian in this skills-focused virtual excursion. 

Tom Murray and Graham Shirley explore the importance of screen-based histories ability to generate knowledge about the past.

Join us on the first Wednesday of each month for Trivia in The Library Bar, hosted by writer and editor Cathy Perkins

Explore the Library's exhibition, Pride (R)evolution, with some of the activists who marched in the first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.