National Museum of Australia – Audio on demand program
Forums, talks, symposiums, conferences and other events held at the National Museum of Australia, exploring Australia's land, nation and people.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 468
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
Introduction to the AE Smith collection
Date recorded: 17 November 2008.
The AE Smith string quartet held by the National Museum is outlined by conservator Robin Tait. She also discusses the conservation strategy of display and occasiona…
00:04:51 |
Tue 20 Jan 2009
Janet on the spot
Date recorded: 23 August 2008.
Renowned art collector Janet Holmes à Court discusses the deeply moving work of Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye with National Museum curator Margo Neale.
Wed 17 Dec 2008
Darwin exhibition opening
Date recorded: 9 December 2008.
Writer, lawyer and former science minister Barry Jones opens the Charles Darwin exhibition at the National Museum of Australia.
00:31:22 |
Wed 17 Dec 2008
Emily: the impossible modernist
Date recorded: 28 September 2008.
ABC journalist Virginia Trioli discusses the work of artist Emily Kngwarreye with Sydney Morning Herald art critic John McDonald and National Museum curator Margo …
00:59:34 |
Sun 30 Nov 2008
The making of Australian Journeys
Date recorded: 8 October 2008.
Curator Martha Sear examines the evolution of the National Museum's Australian Journeys gallery. She provides a comprehensive overview of the stories and the objects …
00:54:59 |
Sun 30 Nov 2008
Ninety years ago on a French hillside: a story of Mont St Quentin
Date recorded: 31 August 2008.
The story of one Australian platoon involved in the 1918 battle of Mont St Quentin, as told by historian Peter Stanley, who follows the 12 men throughout their lives.
Tue 28 Oct 2008
New directions
Date recorded: 23 August 2008.
Chrischona Schmidt examines Emily Kame Kngwarreye's role as painter in the community of Utopia and Gwen Horsfield looks at Australia's participation at the Venice Bi…
00:23:51 |
Sun 26 Oct 2008
Emily as located historian: the Camel Lady narrates a history of discovery without 1788
Date recorded: 22 August 2008.
Historian Ann McGrath discusses paintings as agents of history, bringing history into the present. She looks at the work of Emily Kame Kngwarreye to investigate how p…
00:40:19 |
Sun 26 Oct 2008
George Reid: a journey through three parliaments
Date recorded: 13 August 2008.
Curator Martha Sear discusses objects in the National Historical Collection that once belonged to Sir George Reid, a key figure in Australia's Federation-era politica…
00:49:39 |
Tue 21 Oct 2008
Into the west: Torres Strait Islander railway workers, migration and belonging
Date recorded: 28 August 2008.
Historian Shino Konishi explores the experiences in the 1960s of young Torres Strait Islander men who moved from the Torres Strait to the Australian mainland to work …
00:45:34 |
Sun 12 Oct 2008
Moving stories: women's lives, British women and the postwar Australian dream
Date recorded: 9 July 2008.
Oral historian Alistair Thomson explores the experience of migration to Australia in the 1950s and 1960s, through the eyes and life stories of four British women, during…
00:41:47 |
Sun 12 Oct 2008
100 years of rugby league in Australia panel discussion
Date recorded: 11 May 2008.
The great and controversial moments of 100 years of rugby league in Australia are discussed by sports historians Ian Heads, Sean Fagan and Geoff Armstrong and National M…
Sun 12 Oct 2008
From Makassar to Marege to the Museum
Date recorded: 9 July 2008.
Curator Alison Mercieca tells the story of the Macassan trepang, or sea slug, industry. She considers the places connected by the Macassan voyagers from Indonesia and lo…
00:38:00 |
Tue 07 Oct 2008
Guna Kinne and her Latvian national dress
Date recorded: 14 May 2008.
Curator Karen Schamberger tells the story of Guna Kinne's Latvian national dress, assembled over a period of 20 years in Latvia, Germany and Australia, and now part of t…
00:32:04 |
Tue 07 Oct 2008
Emily Kngwarreye's practice of painting: an international perspective
Date recorded: 23 August 2008.
Art historian Terry Smith explores how Emily Kame Kngwarreye's work operates between the evolution of Indigenous and non-Indigenous art in Australia. He draws compari…
00:49:40 |
Tue 07 Oct 2008
A new ritual in contemporary Aboriginal art
Date recorded: 22 August 2008.
The art of Emily Kame Kngwarreye and the use of cultural rituals to demonstrate Aboriginal modernity is explored by curator Sally Butler. She also compares Emily's ar…
00:33:25 |
Tue 07 Oct 2008
Captured in Staffordshire
Date recorded: 11 June 2008.
Curator Rebecca Nason discusses two Staffordshire figurines of nineteenth-century Irish nationalist, parliamentarian and convict William Smith O'Brien. His story is tol…
00:21:05 |
Tue 07 Oct 2008
The Baden journals
Date recorded: 9 April 2008.
The lives of a group of young sisters growing up on Baden farm at Grong Grong in country New South Wales around 1912 are revealed in a collection of journals, examined …
00:24:42 |
Tue 07 Oct 2008
Outback archive: unorthodox historical records
Date recorded: 4 June 2008.
Historian Darrell Lewis discusses his research on 'the outback archive,' unorthodox historical records from pre-European times to the present, concentrating on marked wa…
00:55:24 |
Thu 18 Sep 2008
An artist first and foremost
Date recorded: 22 August 2008.
Artist and gallery owner Christopher Hodges, who had a close association with Emily Kame Kngwarreye, affirms her position as an abstract artist and provides insights …
00:44:48 |
Tue 16 Sep 2008
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