Explore humanity's stories through our on-site exhibitions, displays, events and more.
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Exhibitions
Fault Lines: Imagining Indigenous futures for colonial collections
Li Ka Shing Gallery
6 December 2024 - 21 December 2025
Museums are sites of both historic fracture and future possibility. Through interventions with historic objects, artistic responses, and new research, this exciting new exhibition asks how we might cultivate relationships between Indigenous communities and museums around the care of colonial-era collections.
Temporary displays
Contemporary Gweagal spears by Rod Mason
Maudslay Gallery
In dialogue with the new display of Kamay spears now open at the Chau Chak Wing Museum in Sydney, a new display is now open at MAA of three contemporary spears, made by Senior Elder of the Gweagla Clan, Dharawal Nation, Rod Mason.
Permanent displays
People & Stuff: A Subversive Collaboration
Andrews Gallery
Contributions to the mural can be made between 10am-1pm and 2-4pm on 15 November, 22 November, 13 December and 20 December 2024 and 17 January, 24 January, 31 January, 7 February, 14 February, 21 February, 28 February and 7 March 2025.
Staff, academics, and visitors have been adding their graffiti contributions to our landscape mural, representing their understanding of the collections, how they got here, and what they mean to them.
This vibrant project seeks to map relationships between the past, ourselves, artefacts and places.
Pacific Currents: New Displays from Oceania in the World Anthropology Gallery
Pacific Currents showcases MAA’s exceptional and wide-ranging Oceanic collections, which originate from throughout the Pacific and date from the late 18th century to the present day.
Events and workshops
The Sensational Museum at MAA
Andrews Gallery
We are working with a small team of people with lived experiences of disability to develop a multi-sensory display as part of The Sensational Museum project.
Kiribati Dancers Krista Dixon and Chloe Karea at the opening for the exhibition Pacific Currents. 5 July 2018. Photography by Josh Murfitt.
Past Events
Details of past events at MAA can be found on our Past Events page>>
