Previous Events

Seminar: National Archaeology Week

Celebrate National Archaeology Week at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
Explore the Northern Territory’s unique archaeological heritage at this National Archaeology Week (NT) event in talks by archaeologists and curators you will:

• Hear about the recent discovery of a World War II bomb crater in the Darwin CBD.
• Discover the history of the Sue Wah Chin building and early 20th Century Chinese occupation and Darwin life.
• Encounter a historic shipwreck in Frances Bay, Darwin Harbour.
• Learn about the possibility of Macassan shipwrecks off the North Australian coast.
• Marvel the Northern Territory’s incredible rock art.

More information and Program of events >>

National Archaeology Week Flyer (pdf 503Kb)

Date:	Saturday 21 May 2011 - 10.00am – 2.30pm
Venue:	Theatrette Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Conacher Street, Fannie Bay

Free admission - all welcome

Bookings essential
RSVP COB 20 May 2011 (08) 8999 8286

Paul Grabowsky, Australian Art Orchestra

Benjamin Wilfred, Young Wagilak Group

Date:	Friday 21 May, Gallery 4
Time:	3:00pm – 4:00pm

The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory will also host a unique conversational event with Paul Grabowsky from the Australian Art Orchestra and Benjamin Wilfred, Wagilak songman from Ngukurr in south east Arnhem Land, who will discuss their musical collaboration Crossing Roper Bar within the exhibition Colour Country: art from Roper River.

This innovative event celebrates country, ceremony, and of the power of music to build enduring bridges across cultures, time and space against the backdrop of the vibrant Roper River landscape and community depicted in the brilliant canvases that adorn the gallery walls.

Bookings essential. Please call 8999 8219 as numbers are limited.

VC Medals Floor Talk

Gallipoli Medals and the Australian War Memorial project

Libby Stewart

Date:	Saturday 8th May, MAGNT Theatrette
Time:	10:30am

Australian War Memorial exhibition curator and military historian Libby Stewart will present a free talk about the Gallipoli Medals and the Australian War Memorial project.

No bookings required.

Floor & artist talk for Recoil Change and Exchange in Coiled Fibre Art Exhibition

Floor Talk

Thisbe Purich

Date:	Saturday 20 March 2010.
Time:	11am

Thisbe Purich introduced coiled basket weaving to the Western Desert women in 1994. The technique rapidly spread and developed into the highly successful Tjanpi Desert Weavers. This floor talk will provide a unique insight into the spread of coiling and its impact on Indigenous fibre art from a key contributor to the coiling movement in Central Australia.

No booking required. All welcome.

Floor Talk

Louise Hamby

Date:	Saturday 10 April 2010.
Time:	11am

Louise has a strong interest in historic and contemporary material culture from Arnhem Land, particularly with fibre items. She co-curated with Diana Young the landmark exhibition, Art on A String:Threaded Objects from the Central Desert and Arnhem Land. She was invited by artists from Injalak to curate, research and write about western Arnhem Land fibre. This resulted in the exhibition and book called Twined Together: Kunmadj Njalehnjaleken. Her long term involvement with the community of Gapuwiyak was the catalyst for her newest exhibition Women With Clever Hands which opens at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery in September. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Australian National University working on an ARC Grant about Yolngu involvement with the formation of collections.

Annual History Colloquium

Saturday 6 November 2010
The Theatrette, MAGNT
9.00am - 4.00pm

History Colloquium 2010 Program (Pdf 342Kb)

For further information please contact
Dr Steven Farram on (08) 8946 6865 or steve.farram@cdu.edu.au

27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award

Program of Events:

Opening Celebration
13 August 2010

4.00pm to - 8.00pm - Award Exhibition open to the public

5.30pm - Presentations to Award winners and live entertainment on the MAGNT lawns

Featuring:
Lou Bennett
Duganda Street Sounds
Wildflower

Admission free. All welcome

Curator talks
Saturday: 14 August
Monday: 16 August
Wednesday: 18 August
Friday: 20 August

Start: 11am Finish: 12pm
(floor talks to start in MAGNT foyer)

Bookings not required

Back to Morse Week - Lyons Cottage

Sunday 20 June to Saturday 26 June 2010

For the twentieth year former telegraph operators from the South Australian and NT Morsecodian Fraternity will once again be at Lyons Cottage to send a telegram for you at no cost to anywhere in Australia.

This event commemorates Australia’s first great engineering infrastructure project, the Overland Telegraph Line (OT Line) constructed in 1870-1872. Meet the Morsecodians and find out about the history of the Overland Telegraph Line and Lyons Cottage.

Special opening hours:
Sunday – Thursday 9am – 5pm
Friday 9am- 8pm
Saturday 9am – 4pm
Entry is free.

MAGNT contact:
Michelle Smith, Curator – Territory History - 08 8951 1103

Floor Talks: Colour Country: Art from Roper River

Celebrate country, ceremony, and the power of music
Conversation in the gallery with Crossing Roper Bar musical collaborators
Paul Grabowsky, Australian Art Orchestra, and Benjamin Wilfred, Wagilak songman
3.00pm Friday 21 May 2010
Bookings essential on 8999 8219 to avoid disappointment, free admission

Curatorial and Artist Talks in the gallery with Cath Bowdler, Angelina George, Faith Thompson Nelson, Maureen Thompson and Alan Joshua.

11.00am Saturday 22 May 2010
No booking required, free admission

Seminar: National Archaeology Week

Celebrate National Archaeology Week at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.

Explore the Northern Territory’s unique archaeological heritage at this National Archaeology Week (NT) event. Through talks by archaeologists and curators from the Heritage Branch, Charles Darwin University, and MAGNT you will:

Hear about the recent discovery of the World War II shipwreck Florence D
Discover the life of the multi-talented government secretary John George Knight and the excavations of his house ‘Knight’s Folly’
Encounter the Catalina flying boats lost in Darwin Harbour during Japanese air raids
Learn what ceramic shards tell us about the encounters between Macassan traders and Top End fishermen
Marvel at the large mounds built by Aboriginal people in Darwin Harbour thousands of years ago.

Free admission - all welcome

Saturday 22 May 2010
10.00am – 1.30pm
Theatrette

Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory
Conacher Street, Fannie Bay
Bookings essential
RSVP COB 20 May 2010 (08) 8999 8286

Seminar Program (71 Kb)

Come and See a Modern Day Indiana Jones - 7 March

Come and See a Modern Day Indiana Jones - 7 March World famous palaeontologist, Dr Paul Sereno, is the man that discovered the worlds largest crocodile fossil, Sarcosuchus, also known as the Supercroc.
Dr Paul Sereno is in the NT doing a documentary for National Geographic about the evolution of crocodiles. He will be conducting a free public lecture at the Museum & Art Gallery Northern Territory on Saturday 7th March at 6pm. Click here for more information.

Free Public Seminar - Yalangbara, art of the Djang'Kawu

Yalangbara, art of the Djang'Kawu The seminar follows the book launch of Yalangbara: art of the Djang’kawu published by the Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory via Charles Darwin University Press. The seminar explores themes in the publication by leading academics in the field, along with members of the Marika family who also co-produced the book.

The central theme is the artistic, cultural and political significance of one of the most significant ancestral sites in Arnhem Land. Yalangbara, or Port Bradshaw, in northeast Arnhem Land is the place where the Djang’kawu ancestral beings first arrived, instigating the birth of all the Dhuwa moiety clans and the creation of all aspects of their natural and social worlds. As the centre for human and cultural creation, Yalangbara has immense spiritual significance for all Yolngu (Aboriginal) people in this region, especially for its owners the Marika family of the Rirratjingu clan.

The Marikas have created an impressive body of public paintings, carvings, drawings and prints about their homeland since the 1930s. Their rich visual and narrative traditions will also be discussed in the seminar along with issues of land tenure and the family’s impressive contribution to the area of land rights, copyright and cross-cultural understanding. The seminar is part of the family’s ongoing interest in promoting the Yolngu perspective to a wider audience.

Venue: Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Theatrette The Christensen Fund

Date: Friday 13th March 2009
Time: 10.00 am – 1.00 pm

Bookings essential
89998228, 0408889695
Email: franchesca.cubillo@nt.gov.au

Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory gratefully acknowledges the Christensen Fund for its generous support of the research and development of the Yalangbara: art of the Djang’kawu publication and the staging of the seminar.