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If you grew up in Australia any time between the 1960s and the late 1990s, chances are you knew a little man from the Moon with a pencil for a nose. His name was Mr Squiggle. Every week he would float down to Earth in his rocket to turn random…

Pompeii: Inside a Lost City at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra depicts life in the flourishing Roman city of Pompeii before it was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.

Give the gift of Canberra, and all at the last minute!

Voyage is the latest exhibition to open at the National Museum.

Indigenous communities around the world are faced with the challenge of preserving and transferring ancestral knowledge. A new exhibition at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris is an example of how indigenous Australian elders are finding innovative ways to protect the bridge between ancient and modern worlds.

Part of the National Museum of Australia's collection has been stored next to a concrete factory and contaminated with deadly silica dust.

As he announces his resignation, National Museum of Australia director Mathew Trinca urges historical institutions to "be honest" about the conflicts that marked Australia's colonisation.

Held by Cambridge University for more than 250 years, the spears mark ‘first point in shared history’

Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Prince Daniel in Canberra on Monday and Tuesday.