During our redevelopment as the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, we are inviting visitors to help create Old Parliament House’s exciting new visitor experience as part of an exclusive online community. As we recently announced, on 18 February, 2009, Special Minister of State, Senator John Faulkner announced that Old Parliament House will become the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House on 9 May 2009. This exciting redevelopment will enhance the role of the House in interpreting Australia’s history and democratic traditions.
The Museum will be the first in Australia dedicated to telling the story of our…
On 18 February, 2009, Special Minister of State, Senator John Faulkner announced that Australia’s much loved heritage-listed landmark, Old Parliament House, will become the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House. Scheduled to open on 9 May 2009, the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House will be Australia’s first museum dedicated to telling the story of our democracy and aims to encourage Australians to understand and participate in our democracy. Visitors will be able to celebrate, debate and experience the past, present and future of Australian democracy.
“We’re excited to reveal that the Museum of Australian…
Works are progressing well on the South East Wing refurbishment. One major component—the replacement of the roof—is almost complete. This involved the removal of all redundant air conditioning equipment and then taking up all the old roof sheeting, guttering and parapet capping which was all at the end of its serviceable life. This has now been replaced with new roofing, guttering and parapet capping. At the same time, new high performance insulation has been installed under the roof sheeting. The image above shows the state of the old roof and the current progress of the roofing. We expect the roofing works to be complete in the next 2–3 weeks…
A season of dramatised documentaries commissioned by Screen Australia examining key turning points in the history of three former Prime Ministers is about to commence on ABC1.
The documentaries screen on successive Thursday nights, beginning on 23 October at 8.30pm. Trailers, press kits, images and credits are available at the following Screen Australia websites:
The Prime Minister is Missing
Menzies and Churchill at War
Infamous Victory—Ben Chifley’s Battle for Coal
The first documentary is The Prime Minister is Missing (directed by Peter Butt, starring Normie Rowe). Reconstructed from eyewitness accounts, this dramatised documentary…
In recent exciting news, our exhibition website, Billy Hughes at War , has finished runner up in the 2008 McFarlane Prize for excellence in Australian web design. The website, produced by the design team at Icelab , was ‘highly commended by the judges’. The award was made at the recent Web Directions South conference in Sydney on 25 November, 2008.
The website launched in February 2008 to complement the Billy Hughes at War traveling exhibition, which commenced at the Shrine of Remembrance , Melbourne, in February 2008. The exhibition is currently showing at Old Parliament House.
On our Flickr photostream you can see a growing collection of images relating to the building and events taking place within and around it. We are also using Flickr to support and extend our exhibitions program and open up our content to comment, tagging and discussion. The three most recent examples are the exhibitions Billy Hughes at War, Beyond Reasonable Drought and In the Picture.
The Billy Hughes at War exhibition website contains activities and resources about the conscription debate and Australia’s involvement in the peace negotiations after the First World War. Using our Flash-based poster builder on the site, visitors to the site can…
Old Parliament House now offers some of its regularly updated content in the form of an RSS feed. You can subscribe to our news, events and exhibitions feeds separately or grab the combined feed: Current exhibitions
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Besides visiting websites using a web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari), there are other ways of accessing web content. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a service provided by many websites which allows you to receive regular new website content, delivered to your computer or other device, without having to visit the website itself. RSS is a handy way to manage a lot of content…
Local Canberra production company, Eye Candy Animation has collected multiple award wins at the 2008 WorldFest Houston International Film Festival for its OPH television commercials. Old Parliament House television ads won three awards at the WorldFest International Film Festival in Houston. EyeCandy Animation was awarded three of the highest category based awards in relation to the OPH ads in the following categories:
Platinum REMI award in the ‘series/campaign’ category for all four Old Parliament House animated television commercials;
second Platinum REMI award for the “Discover what’s inside” (current brand ad) commercial in the ‘institu…
