National Archives of Australia

Our Preservation team do remarkable work to preserve documents and objects from our collection. Read their blog articles on current projects.

At the National Archives, visiting school children learn about the human stories behind the nation's historical events.

Discovering Mildenhall's Canberra: Photographs from the birth of our capital.

Discover, explore and contribute to this exciting new project from the National Archives of Australia and the Museum of Australian Democracy.

The ICA Congress is a great opportunity to network with the world's top archivists and other archiving professionals from around the globe. 

The National Archives is proud to share the portraits of 500 Australian World War I diggers on our website. We thank the Department of Veterans' Affairs for funding digitisation of these portraits, discovered in the Bonds of Sacrifice collection at the Imperial War Museum, London.