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What’s got us talking

Visit the Australian War Memorial's touring exhibition

Black and white photograph of man with moving picture camera

Get a head start on your HSC

Students in the GMB Reading Room

Explore the Nikon-Walkley Press Photography Exhibition

Woman stands in Nikon-Walkley Press Photography Exhibition looking at photograph

See a special theatre performance for schools in 2024

Young girl watching show excitedly

Collection buzz

400 photographs. 200 photographers. 3 centuries.

Curator Geoff Barker looks at the Library’s extraordinary image collection with fresh eyes.

Rara Avis the impossible black swan

A new addition to the Library’s world-class collection of Australian ornithological drawings.

A wicker basket of photos

A librarian discovers an extraordinary photo in an old wicker basket.

Daguerreotype group portrait

A model archive

A daughter decides to give the scrapbooks and journals of her beloved mother — an Australian fashion icon — to the Library.

June Dally- Watkins in ad

All the Will in the world

The 1623 volume, Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories & Tragedies, aka the ‘First Folio’, is 400 years old this year. Why is it so special?

Shakespeare First Folio open on title page featuring a picture of William Shakespeare

Featured events

Explore For all time: Shakespeare in print

Tuesday
Tue 12 Dec 2023, 11.00 am
Free
Tour
Join a curator-led tour of the exhibition For all time: Shakespeare in print, celebrating 400 years since the publication of the First Folio.
An image of two old books, one large and one small on a red velvet backdrop. The larger book is open to a page that reads The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet.
Onsite

99.94 slides on cricket

Wednesday
Wed 13 Dec 2023, 6.00 pm
Free
Talk
Cricket is the best game ever. This is its history in 99.94 slides (with silly points).
A group of sports fans at the cricket in front of scoreboards
Onsite