Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory collections' place the region's art, history and culture in an Australian and international context through research, interpretation and collection development. These collections encompass Aboriginal Art and material culture, visual arts, craft, Southeast Asian and Oceanic Art and material culture, maritime archaeology, Northern Territory history and natural sciences.
Address:
Conacher Street, Bullocky Point, Darwin, NT
Tel:
0889998201
Hours:
9:00am to 5:00pm Mon - Fri, 10:00am to 5:00pm Sat - Sun. Closed Christmas Day, New Years Day, Boxing Day and Good Friday.
Email:
Admission:
Free
Facilities:
Wheelchair access, museum shop, museum library, education unit, theatre, cafe
Collection:
160,000 artefacts and specimens
Subject:
- Art Gallery
- Art
- Craft
- Drawings and Prints
- Glass
- Jewellery
- Leatherwork
- Metalwork
- Painting
- Paper
- Pottery and Ceramics
- Sculptures
- Textiles, Spinning and Weaving
- Woodwork
- Maritime and Naval History
- Social History
- Aboriginal Art
- Aboriginal Artefacts
- Aboriginal Culture
- Asian Cultures
- Pacific Cultures
- Invertebrates
- Palaeontology
- Seashells
- Vertebrates
- Geology
Items
Specimen Mount
Sweetheart
Creator:
N/A
Description:
5.2 metre male saltwater crocodile mount
Artwork
Kumoken - The Crocodile
Creator:
Curly Bardkadabu
Description:
Pigments on bark
Date:
1973
Item Id Number:
ABART0963
Flag
Australian Flag
Creator:
N/A
Description:
Flag that flew on Camarina Police Station through Cyclone Tracy
Date:
1960-1974
Item Id Number:
TH94/026
Boat - Perahu
Hati Marege
Creator:
South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Description:
Bicentennial Reconstruction of 19th century style perahu
Date:
1988
Item Id Number:
IND01232
Artwork
The Swimming Place
Creator:
Ian Fairweather
Description:
Gouache on Paper
Date:
1951
Item Id Number:
GA00867