Things To Do in Australia This Weekend

Mt. Lindsay and Sunset, Queensland Border, Mt. Lindsey was donated to Lismore City Council by the artist’s son, Arthur J.W. Burgess, when he visited the Northern Rivers area from England in March 1...read more

Spare Bedroom was painted at 'Fardon', the Olley family home in Brisbane. Margaret Olley's mother, Grace Olley, was good friends with artist Margaret Cilento's mother, Lady Phyllis Cilento, and her...read more

1955 to 1958 was one of the least prolific times of Margaret Olley’s painting career. Winning the Lismore Art Prize no doubt provided her with the necessary encouragement to pursue her art more vig...read more

Introduces the Holocaust, documenting Hitler’s rise to power and its impact on the Jews in Germany following the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws. It culminates in the story of Kristallnacht – th...read more

Jewish Australians have participated in all services and in all spheres of action both at home and abroad. This exhibition portrays the stories of Jewish servicemen and women in the Australian d...read more

The exhibition explores Jewish history from its Biblical origin in the Ancient Near East to the thriving Jewish community here in Australia. While tracing the significant events that have determine...read more

Visitors enter this area alongside a near life-size sculptural relief entitled Walking into the Ghetto. The large-scale images exhibited in a dimly lit space reinforce the enclosed nature of life i...read more

Amidah is the title of a striking new exhibition about Jewish resistance in the Holocaust, forming part of the Sydney Jewish Museum’s permanent displays. The old image still prevalent today that...read more

The Muswellbrook Shire Council Reconciliation Committee first proposed a mural depicting the concept of black and white reconciliation in 1999. Over the following twelve months the Committee secure...read more

The tapestry is based on an oil painting on cardboard by local artist Max Watters and it depicts his interpretation of the Muswellbrook townscape. The weaving was carried out during 1988 by a team ...read more