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 Gallery @ CMAG 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.

FOSSIL SITE VISIT

Saturday 18 February 9.15 am Uriarra Crossing

Visit the Burrinjuck area with Tim Senden
and Gavin Young (ANU) to see some of the sites that have produced the 400 million year old fossil fish on display in the 'Old Bones - New Insights' exhibition. Bring your own vehicle and
a picnic lunch. The local geology will be explained from several vantage points, and we will visit some fossiliferous limestone exposures in road cuttings and on the shore of Lake Burrinjuck as time permits.

Meeting place: 9.15 am, carpark on the left side of the road, immediately across the bridge at Uriarra Crossing

Time: departing Uriarra Crossing 9.30 am; returning ~ 5.30 pm [participants may return earlier if they wish]

Recommended: hats, sunscreen, your own food and sufficient drinks, sturdy footwear.

Cost: free

RSVP: email to Tim.Senden@anu.edu.au
by Wednesday 15 February 2012
[numbers may be limited]

 

King O'Malley

Until 12 March 2012
Gallery 2/3

Few politicians in Australia’s history have been as colourful, and none so enigmatic, as King O’Malley. O’Malley was a member of Australia’s first Federal Parliament and a key figure in Canberra’s history.