Canberra Museum and Gallery, Nolan Gallery, Lanyon, Calthorpes' House and Mugga-Mugga
are managed by the Cultural Facilities Corporation

Through our community and school programs, exhibitions and special events, we aim to provide you a better understanding of our local history, heritage and the visual arts.

Welcome

ACT Museums and Galleries is an administrative unit of the Cultural Facilities Corporation (CFC).

The latter was established under the Cultural Facilities Corporation Act 1997 for the purpose of managing and developing a number of the ACT’s major cultural assets: the Canberra Theatre; the Canberra Museum and Gallery; the Nolan Collection and ACT Historic Places (Lanyon, Calthorpes’ House and Mugga Mugga). The Corporation’s responsibilities span across the performing arts, the visual arts, social history and cultural heritage management.

Consisting of the Canberra Museum and Gallery, the Nolan Collection and ACT Historic Places (Lanyon, Calthorpes’ House and Mugga Mugga), ACT Museums and Galleries delivers a range of cultural services to the community in providing activities such as exhibitions, public and education programs, and through collecting, conserving and presenting significant aspects
of the ACT’s cultural heritage.

Peter Haynes
Director
ACT Museums and Galleries

Events

Mugga-Mugga
Bush Poetry

Sunday 12 July  > 4.00 - 6.00pm

The Queanbeyan Bush Poets present a variety of traditional and contemporary bush poetry by the pot belly stove in the Mugga-Mugga Education Centre. Relax with a warm cup of Mulled wine and enjoy old favourites and new works of bush poetry after touring Mugga-Mugga Cottage, a site which evokes this great Australian tradition.

Cost: $10 (ACT M&G $8), includes refreshments

Bookings and payment: by Wed 8 July*
historicplacesbookings@act.gov.au or 6235 5677

Exhibition Highlight

Canberra Museum and Gallery
JOURNEY TO MORNING

15 May – 16 August 2009

Journey to morning is an installation by
Canberra artists Blaide Lallemand and Hilary Cuerden-Clifford with video translation by Christopher Fulham. This work explores a universal aspect of human existence, sleep, which cuts across age, gender and cultural background.