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Uncover the unexpected and spark your curiosity with mesmerising magnets, machines and motion in Questacon Presents: ZAP! CLANK! POW!With 17 exhibits across three zones and a trio of delightful characters, Questacon Presents explores electricity - ZAP! - simple machines - CLANK! - and fundamental forces - POW! In Questacon Presents: ZAP! CLANK! POW! you can become a battery, lift herculean loads with levers and use mechanisms to make mechanical music

Explore a colourful chapter of Australia's history at National Archives' exhibition Camel trains to steel wheels: life on the Trans-Australian Railway

Am I in your way?' extends Raquel Ormella's career-long focus on the visual cultures of protest and resistance

The Lodge' is the third moving image work in Amala Groom's 'Raised by Wolves' series, following 'The Proposal' (2022), and 'The Union' (2019)

​​Be transported to the magical mangroves of Australia's Top End in Mangroves - Tales from the Tide

From the early 1970s Japanese-American artist Masami Teraoka adopted the traditional visual vocabulary of 17th-19th century Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints to comment on the world around him

The Immersive World of Thom Roberts is the first solo exhibition for multidisciplinary contemporary Australian artist Thom Roberts

The National Library has invited renowned Australian photojournalist Mike Bowers to select some of his favourite images from the Fairfax Photo Archive

Enter the musical world of Stuart and Georgian Britain, a world of concert-going, music-makers and thinkers, of printers and publishers