Exhibitions Timeline
Discover a list of every exhibition held at the Australian Museum and at the Djamu Gallery at Customs House, Circular Quay.
Year | Exhibition |
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1854-1855 | Exhibition of New South Wales products (on display prior to their despatch to the Paris International Exhibition) |
1879 | Garden Palace Exhibition |
1905 | Sponges from a zoological and Commercial Point of View |
1905 | Bower-building Birds of Australia |
1905 | Nest Building Fishes |
1905 | Pearls and Pearl Shells |
1905 | Mosquitoes |
1905 | Meteorites |
1906 | Low Forms of Aquatic Life |
1906 | Birds of Paradise |
1906 | Oysters and Oyster Culture |
1906 | Gems and Precious Stones |
1910 | Extinct Animals |
1921 | Hawaiian Family Group |
1922 | Boatswain Bird Group, Lord Howe Island |
1923 | Coral Pool Group, Lord Howe Island |
1923 | Admiralty Islets Bird Group |
1924 | Grey-headed Fruit Bat |
1924 | Reconstruction of a Papuan House or Ravi |
1926 | Queensland Lungfish |
1926 | Ptarmigan |
1926 | Aboriginal Group |
1927 | Skulls and Skull Casts |
1932 | Bushland, Fishers and Fauna |
1933 | Bird of Paradise exhibition |
1936 | Limestone Caves |
1937 | Fluorescent Minerals |
1937 | Platypus Group |
1937 | Lyrebird Group |
1940 | Story of Man |
1940 | Life History of the Dragon-Fly and Ants' Guests |
1941 | Ant Lion and the Life History of the Caddis Fly |
1941 | Exhibition of Aboriginal Artefacts |
1944 | Life History of the Tapeworm |
1945-1946 | Relief Map of the Central Coast Region of NSW |
1945-1946 | Evolution of the Horse |
1948 | Fossil Reptilian Footprints |
1950 | Vickery Stamp Collection |
1950 | Evolution of Man |
1951 | Black Cockatoo Group |
1953 | Invertebrate Gallery |
1953 | Prawns and Prawning |
1956 | Corals of the South-west Pacific |
1956 | Age and Animals |
1956 | Bluebottle Group |
1956 | Mountain Parrot Group |
1956 | Crabs and their Relatives from Local Harbour Waters |
1956 | Relics from 'S.S. Dunbar' |
1956 | Eggs of the Ribbon-tailed Bird of Paradise - Cammerosaurus |
1958 | Evolution of Flight |
1958 | Aboriginal Relics |
1958 | Rare Pigeons |
1958 | Earthworms |
1958 | Introduction to Minerals |
1960 | Vertebrate Tree |
1960 | These are Invertebrates (Invertebrate Tree) |
1960 | Dangerous Marine Animals |
1960 | Charles Darwin |
1960 | Corroboree Frogs |
1960 | Classification of Fishes |
1960 | Neanderthal Man |
1961 | Whales and Whaling |
1961 | Vampire Bats |
1962 | Deepwater Volute Shells from Eastern Australia |
1962 | Mammal Maritime Exhibition |
1963 | Shells of the Open Sea |
1963 | Shells of the Sea Shore |
1963 | Shells of Coral Reefs |
1964 | Rocky Sea Shore |
1964 | Australian Stone Implements |
1965 | Conservation |
1965 | Canadian Wildlife |
Opened 1966 | Hall of Fossils |
1966 | Cook Relics |
1967 | Antarctic |
Opened 1967 | Antarctic, Pacific and New Guinea Gallery |
Opened 1968 | Melanesian Gallery |
1968 | Wildlife Photographs |
1969 | It all Began in Eden |
1970 | Cook, Banks and Australia |
1970 | Moon Rock |
1971 | Australian Bird Index - Parrot Photographs |
1971 | Recent Anthropological Acquisitions display |
1971 | NASA Moon Landing |
1971 | Antarctic Fish Fossils |
1972 | Pierre Bonnard paintings |
1972 | Melanesia |
Opened 1973 | Aboriginal Gallery |
1973 | Indonesia Today |
Opened 1974 | Marine Hall |
Opened 1974 | Hall of Life |
1974 | Cambodian Sculpture |
1974 | Contemporary Indonesian Wall Hangings |
1974 | Hall of Life Art Competition |
1974 | Art of Oceania |
1975 | A Peculiar Primate |
1975 | Banksian Folio |
1975 | Craft and Jade |
Opened 1976 | Mineral Gallery |
Opened 1976 | Arid Zone Gallery |
1976 | American Glass Sculpture |
1976 | A Better Way to Live |
1976 | Contemporary American Ceramics |
1976 | American Bicentennial Celebration |
1976 | South Seas |
1976 | Life in India and the Himalayas |
1976 | Sringar |
1976 | Halley's Comet display |
1976 | Conservation of Australian Fauna |
1977 | Arid Australia |
1977 | History of the Museum: 150th anniversary |
1977 | Sydney International Exhibition of Photography (S.I.E.P) |
1977 | Indian exhibition |
1977-1978 | Renewing the Dreaming |
1978 | Aboriginal Arts Course |
1978 | China exhibit |
1978 | Balinese Paintings |
1978 | Butterflies |
1978 | Bark Paintings |
1978-1979 | Oenpelli Bark Painting |
Opened 1979 | Marine Invertebrate Gallery |
1979 | Man and the Marine Environment |
1979 | Child in Aboriginal Society |
1979 | Message from the Mountain |
1979 | Fourth Part of the World |
1979 | Heathlands |
1979 | Venomous Australian Wildlife |
1979 | Treasures of the Museum |
1979 | Emblems of the State |
1979 | African Art |
1979 | Musical Instruments |
1979-1980 | Lion Rugs from Fars |
1980 | Fossils and Dinosaurs |
1980 | Awareness |
1980 | Man, a Peculiar Primate |
1980 | Tangata (Mankind) |
Opened 1981 | Invertebrates of the Sea |
Opened 1981 | Mammals in Australia |
1981 | Australian Fossil Flora |
1981 | Treasures of the Australian Museum |
1981 | Life in the Sea |
Opened 1982 | Birds in Australia |
Opened 1982 | Abelam: a people of Papua New Guinea |
1982 | Skeletons |
1982 | Aboriginal Australia |
1982 | Massim Tribal Art |
1982 | Warlpiri dancers from Yuendumu as part of Women and the Arts Festival |
1982 | Mineral Sales |
Opened 1983 | Skeleton Gallery |
1983 | Dinosaurs from China |
1983 | Exhibition for National Aborigines Week |
1983 | What on Earth |
1983-1984 | Baldwin Spencer Photographic exhibition |
Opened 1984 | Aboriginal Australia |
1984 | Rare and Curious |
1984 | Bushfires - In a Different Light |
1984 | Rare Stamps |
1984-1985 | Frank Hurley in Papua |
Opened 1985 | Insect Gallery |
1985 | Terrestrial Invertebrates |
1985 | Fossil Gallery |
1985 | Indonesia and the Pacific |
1985 | Galapagos, Born of the Sea |
1985 | Marine Worms |
1985 | Pressed on Paper |
1985 | Indonesian Regional Culture |
1985 | Robes of Power |
1985 | Sydney Urban Environment |
1985 | Renewable Energy |
1985 | Restricted Wildlife |
1985 | Aborigines in Sydney |
Opened 1986 | Planet of Minerals |
1986 | Spectacular Vernacular |
1986 | Cosmic Contact - Halley's Comet |
1986 | Year of Peace exhibition |
1986 | African Sanctus |
1986 | Insects |
1986 | Indonesian Regional Culture |
1987 | W.I.R.E.S Art Show 1987 |
1987 | 20th Century Dinosaurs |
1987 | Characters in a Crystal Landscape |
1987 | African and Aboriginal Art |
1987 | Discovery Room |
Opened 1988 | Tracks Through Time: the story of human evolution |
Opened 1988 | Rituals of the Human Life Cycle |
1988 | Dreamtime to Dust: Australia's fragile environment |
1988 | Pieces of Paradise: Pacific art through many eyes |
1988 | First Impressions: British impressions of Australia 1770-1840 |
1988 | W.I.R.E.S Art Show |
1988 | Distance In Between |
1989 | Ancient Macedonia |
1989 | Taonga Maori: treasures of the New Zealand Maori people |
1989-1990 | What on Earth? |
1990 | Woven Image: contemporary Art from Arnhem Land |
1990 | Prohibited: the wildlife trade |
1990 | Dinosaurs Alive |
1990 | Opalised Fossil Pleiosaur |
1990 | Environment Expo '90 |
1990 | Skeletons - Framework for Survival |
1990 | Monsters of the Deep |
1990 | Power of Love: six centuries of diamond betrothal rings |
1990-1991 | Discovery Space |
1990-1991 | Traditional Arts of the Sahara and Region |
1990-1991 | Maori Festival in Sydney |
1991 | William Liu - Pathfinder 1893-1983 |
1991 | Some Memories for the Twentieth Century |
1991 | Story of Sydney |
1991 | Luk Luk Gen (Look Look Again!) |
1991 | W.I.R.E.S Art Show |
1991-1992 | Pol Art |
1991-1992 | Face to Face |
1991-1992 | Issues in Print - Aboriginal Posters |
1991-1992 | Greek Australians in Their Own Image |
1991-1992 | Raven's Survival: Eskimo spirit and subsistence in the far north |
1991-1992 | Now You See Them |
1991-1992 | Sydney's Kids |
1991-1992 | Street Science |
1992 | Living Mask |
1992 | Future of Australia's Dreaming |
1992 | Water Challenge |
1992 | W.I.R.E.S Art Show |
1992 | Boci-Boci Tarka |
1992-1993 | Mabo |
1992-1993 | Earthworm Environmental Awards |
1992-1993 | Gargantuans from the Garden |
1992-1993 | Our Place: Australian People, Australian Identity |
1992-1993 | Work - It - Out |
1992-1993 | Roots in Denmark |
1992-1993 | Ozone: the burning issue |
1992-1993 | Cat Attitude: the real issue with feral cats |
1992-1993 | Battered Fish: Australia's fisheries in crisis |
1992-1993 | Wasteland to Wetland: Homebush Bay |
1992-1993 | Oil Spills: the way clear |
1993 | Beyond the Java Sea |
1993 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 1993 |
1993 | W.I.R.E.S Art Show |
1993 | Black Art |
1993-1994 | Shark! |
1993-1994 | Mitey Science |
1993-1994 | Sciencescape |
1993-1994 | Malaysian Children's Art Exhibition (Malaysian Arts Festival) |
1993-1994 | Great Russian Dinosaurs |
1993-1994 | Between Two Worlds |
1993-1994 | Earthworm Environmental Awards |
1993-1994 | Lukluk bek Long Taim Bipo |
1993-1994 | Wetlands |
1994 | Discoveries |
1994 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 1994 |
1994 | Youth Identikit |
1994 | Art of the Himalayas |
1994 | Prejudice and Pride - Gay and Lesbian Communities |
1994 | Guadare, Ascoltare and Giocare |
1994 | Treasures of Africa |
1994-1995 | Search and Discover |
1994-1995 | Rediscovering Pompeii |
1994-1995 | Women's Views: art, science and the environment |
1994-1995 | Great Australian Treasure Hunt |
1994-1995 | Our Families |
1994-1995 | Rabaul |
1994-1995 | Drought |
1994-1995 | Pulp Friction |
1994-1995 | Promised Land |
Opened 1995 | More than Dinosaurs: evolution of life |
1995 | Environment |
1995 | Perspectives on Drought |
1995 | Croatian Australians, Australian Croatians |
1995 | Opal |
1995 | Why We had to Leave: stories from recently arrived refugees |
1995 | My Face My Place: private voices, public images |
1995 | Earthworms |
1995 | Images of Power: spiritual dimensions of Balinese life |
1995 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 1995 |
1995 | Samba de Samba |
1995-1996 | Bordered Lives |
1995-1996 | ICI Zoom-In |
1995-1996 | Australia Street Archive |
Opened 1996 | Albert Chapman Mineral Collection |
1996 | Far Fetched |
1996 | Rainbow, Sugarbag, Moon |
1996 | Photographs from Australia's Heritage Commission |
1996 | Rom - Its about Friendship |
1996 | My Tibet |
1996 | View from the Hill |
1996 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 1996 |
1996-1997 | Frogs |
1996-1997 | Awakenings: Australia-Pacific spirits |
1996-1997 | Drawn from the Heart |
1996-1997 | Sex, It's Only Natural |
1996-1997 | Images of Wisdom: through Australian-Palestinian eyes |
1996-1997 | Landscapes and Lives |
1996-1997 | Inside Out: process, progress, change |
1996-1997 | Face to Face (Indigenous Teenagers) |
1996-1997 | Gifts for a God (Captain Cook's Cloak) |
1996-1997 | Toekang Potret |
1996-1997 | Ogadot |
1996-1997 | Fascination Science |
1996-1997 | Earthworm Environmental Awards |
1996-1997 | Indigenous Australians: Australia's first people |
1997 | Gargantuans from the Garden - the Return |
1997 | The Long Paddock: Lives and Landscapes |
1997 | Night Skies: the art of deep space |
1997 | Kaleidoscope of Life |
1997 | Djalkiri Wangka |
1997 | Punkulture |
1997 | Carnivale |
1997 | Shadows in the Dust |
1997 | Painting the Land Story |
1997 | Olympic Arts Festival |
1997 | Festival of the Dreaming |
1997 | Bogcheh |
1997 | Retracing the Inbetween |
1997-1998 | Images of the Sea |
1997-1998 | Spiders! |
1997-1998 | Forbidden love, Bold Passions |
Opened 1998 | Biodiversity: life supporting life |
1998 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 1997 |
1998 | Thirst: reflections on water in Australia |
1998 | Barddi'wanga: from the string |
1998 | Eureka |
1998 | Stolen Lives: documenting Aboriginal separation and survival |
1998 | Life and Death Under the Pharaohs |
1998 | Argonauts: graceful sailors in boats of shell |
1998 | Images of Mambesak |
1998 | Twang: a fusion of sounds from around the world |
1998 | Peepshow Kinetica |
1998-1999 | Food for Thought |
1998-1999 | Terrorsaurus |
1998-1999 | Black Beauty |
1998-1999 | Savage Island Hiapo |
1998-1999 | Images from the Sea |
1998-1999 | Face to Face |
Opened 1999 | Kids' Island |
1999 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 1998 |
1999 | Eye to Eye: Observations by FE Williams, Anthropologist in Papua 1922-1943 |
1999 | Topographies: landscapes of the imagination |
1999 | The Art of Eric Carle |
1999 | Tuba Rai Metin: firmly gripping the Earth |
1999 | Kitset Cultures |
1999 | Captive Lives: looking for Tambo and his companions |
1999 | Ancient Lives: Greeks, Romans and Etruscans |
1999 | Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) |
1999 | Picture Sydney: landmarks for a new generation |
1999-2000 | Mapping Our Countries |
1999-2000 | Menthen-Queue Here |
1999-2000 | Ngayulu-latju Palyantja |
2000 | Living Colour |
2000 | Body Art |
2000 | BHP Wildscience |
2000 | Sea of Hands |
2000 | Back to the Walls: tribal murals and aerosol walls from India and Australia |
2000 | Sospen Graun: Pottery from Papua New Guinea |
2000 | Power of Hair |
2000 | Bats |
2000 | Landmarks for the 21st Century |
2000-2001 | Transitions: indigenous Australian artwork |
2000-2001 | Sharing our Earth Tapestry |
2001 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2000 |
2001 | Australia's Lost Kingdoms |
2001 | Mystery of the Thylacine |
2001 | Sharing Our Earth Tapestry |
2001 | Super Croc. |
2001 | Catching... the Harbour |
2001 | Sisters of Charity 1838-2001 |
2001 | Kids Earth Program - tapestry |
2001-2002 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2001 |
2001-2002 | New Traditions: contemporary art of Vanuatu |
2001-2002 | Mission Earthling |
2002 | A Worm's Eye View - the Wilbur Worm National Environmental Art Competition |
2002 | Body Art 2 |
2002 | Images from Science |
2002 | Yumi Yet Bougainville: this is us |
2002 | Yilpinji: love, magic and ceremony |
2002-2003 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2002 |
2002-2003 | Levee Bank and Beyond |
2002-2003 | Beyond the Reef |
2002-2003 | Chinese Dinosaurs |
2003 | Two Emperors: China's ancient origins |
2003 | Yikwani: contemporary Tiwi ceramics |
2003 | Sense of Place |
2003 | Death: the last taboo |
2003 | Mukatinji Ngari |
2003 | Science in the City exposition |
2003-2004 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2003 |
2003-2004 | Up Close and Spineless |
2003-2004 | Gold and Sacrifice: treasures of ancient Peru |
2003-2004 | Chicka Dixon: the struggle in black and white |
2004 | Uncovered: treasures of the Australian Museum |
2004 | John Gould - 200 Years of Achievement |
2004 | Waterhole |
2004 | Gordon Syrons: private clubs and politics |
2004 | Michael Riley: a series of photographs |
2004 | Belonging |
2004 | Vestirse como Dioses - Dressed Like Gods |
2004 | Snapshots through Deep Time |
2004-2005 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2004 |
2004-2005 | Life Beyond the Tomb |
2004-2005 | Scientific Illustrations |
2004-2005 | Butterfly Effect |
2005 | It's a Dog's Life: animals in the public service |
2005 | Science in the City exposition |
2005 | Whodunit? Mystery at Menagerie Park |
2005 | Trail of the Mummy |
2005 | Mysterious Bog People |
2005 | Supercroc |
2005-2006 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2005 |
2005-2006 | TORTURE: inquisition, capital punishment |
2005-2006 | How to Make a Monster: The Art of Animatronics |
2006 | Pearls: opulence and obsession |
2006 | Science in the City |
2006 | Dinosaur Unearthed |
2006 | Pacific Patterns |
2006 | Ko Tawa |
2006 | Six Strands: woven vessels from the collection |
2006-2007 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2006 |
2006-2007 | Eaten Alive |
2007 | Colliding Worlds: first contact in the western desert, 1930-1984 |
2007 | Australia Through the National Geographic Lens |
2007 | African Impressions |
2007 | On Track: contemporary Aboriginal art from Western Australia |
2007 | Science in the Bush |
2007-2008 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2007 |
2007-2008 | Face to Face |
Opened 2008 | Surviving Australia |
Opened 2008 | Dinosaurs |
2008 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 |
2008-2009 | Frank Hurley: journeys into Papua |
2008-2009 | Papunya Painting: out of the desert |
2009 | When Mammoths Roamed |
2009 | Climate Change: our future, our choice |
2009 | Menagerie: contemporary indigenous sculpture |
2009 | Egyptian Treasures: art of the pharaohs |
2009-2010 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 |
2009-2010 | Amazing Backyard Adventures |
2010 | Yiloga! Tiwi Footy |
2010 | Alive! |
2010 | Banana Kids |
2010-2011 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010 |
2011 | 50 Years of Gold |
2011 | Fashion Less Waste |
2011 | Rituals of Seduction: birds of paradise |
2011 | Beauty from Nature: art of the Scott sisters |
2011-2012 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011 |
2011-2012 | Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route |
2012 | Deep Oceans |
2012-2013 | Alexander the Great |
2013 | Charles Addams: American Gothic |
2013 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012 |
2013 | Polychaetes Photographic Display |
2013-2014 | Aztecs |
2013-2014 | Menagerie exhibition |
Opened 2014 | Garrigarrang: Sea Country |
2014 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013 |
2014 | Curious Treasures - The Long Gallery |
2014 | Tyrannosaurs - meet the family |
2014 | Armour |
2014-2015 | Same Jukurrpa: Same Country |
Opened 2015 | Pacific Spirit Gallery |
Opened 2015 | Bayala Nura: Yarning Country |
Opened 2015 | Wild Planet |
2015 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014 |
2015 | Organic Landscapes, Karen Burgess Photographs |
2015 | Trailblazers: Australia's 50 greatest explorers |
2016 | Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2016 |
2016 | Janet Laurence: Deep Breathing (Resuscitation for the Reef) |
2016 | Spiders - Alive & Deadly |
2017 | Transformations: Art of the Scott Sisters |
2017 | Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2017 |
Opened 2017 | Westpac Long Gallery - 200 Treasures of the Australian Museum. |
2017 | Mammoths - Giants of the Ice Age |
2018 | GADI - Gadi country and gadigal culture. |
2018 | Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2018 |
2018 | Whales | Tohora - Giants of the ocean. |