The National Archives held its first public exhibition in 1998. The links below take you to information about the more than 20 exhibitions we have curated or hosted since.
Just Add Water: Schemes and Dreams for a Sunburnt Country
It's a Dog's Life! Animals in the Public Service
Beacons by the Sea: Stories of Australian LighthousesWine! An Australian Social History
Caught in the Rear View Mirror: with Roy and HG!
Belonging – A Century Celebrated
A Vision Splendid – How the Griffins Imagined Australia's Capital
Signed, Sealed, Delivered – When the Post Office was King
Eye to Eye – Observations by FE Williams, Anthropologist in Papua 1922–43
Home Sweet Home? Living in Canberra in the 1920s and 1930s
Scene Stealers – Australian Theatre 1870–1955
John Curtin – A Man of Peace, A Time of War
Selling a Dream – Promoting Australia to Postwar Migrants
Canberra’s Early Years – Photographs from the Mildenhall Collection
Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize 2009
Women Transported: Life in Australia's Convict Female Factories
Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize 2008
Patriotism Persuasion Propaganda: American and Australian War Posters
Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize 2007
Drawing Together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Art Collection
Wrecked! Tragedy and the Southern Seas
Humanity in the Midst of Conflict
Antarctic Views by Hurley and Ponting
2005 Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award
Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize 2005
The Policeman's Eye: Paul Foelsche's Photography and Ethnography
Radical Architect: John Horbury Hunt 1838–1904
Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art Award 2004