Help your hive thrive
How can we better support local bees?
Bees are so important to the environment. This matrix will help support young people to consider how they can take positive steps in their everyday lives to help bees thrive.
MoAD and the Courtyard Cafe are open. Some exhibitions and rooms will be closed from September 2025 for essential building works. Learn more
Bees are so important to the environment. This matrix will help support young people to consider how they can take positive steps in their everyday lives to help bees thrive.
Recreating the Clerk of the Senate's office to evoke 1975.
Watch a special Harmony Week video with Gregg Dreise.
The close connections between Elizabeth II and the history of Old Parliament House.
Help students build connections with the animals and plants around them.
A spotlight on the Indigenous artist Lin Onus.
Listen to historic moments from the Senate Chamber.
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