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Families and children

Check out our family and children’s holiday programs and join in on the fun. Bookings and enquiries (02) 6248 2000.

School holiday workshops
Creation Station: Workshop

Creation station: sub zero sound

From Creation Station, NFSA to Mawson Station, Antarctica. Build noisemakers to create live sound effects for Frank Hurley’s 100 year old Antarctica silent film footage. Squeak, honk, holler and blow with a big screen performance in our Arc cinema – the grand finale to the morning’s sound effects workshop.

Monday 16 April – Friday 20 April
10am – 12pm daily
$5 per child; adults free (payment required at the time of booking)
Bookings essential on (02) 6248 2000
Suitable for ages 5 and over, children to be accompanied

Creation Station: Workshop Winter 2011

Action Station: freeze frame

Rediscover the magic of photography in this 2-day pinhole camera workshop. Make your own cameras, take a collection of shots, and take home a suite of amazing images you’ve developed yourself.

Monday 16 April – Tuesday 17 April (2-day workshop), 1.30–4.30pm
$45 per child (payment required at the time of booking)
Bookings essential 6248 2000
Venue: NFSA and adjacent ANU School of Art (Note: NFSA drop off and pick up)

Penguin Egg Trail

Easter egg hunting is back with a difference! This April join us for a penguin egg trail:

Ready… head to the reception desk
Set… collect your penguin trail map
Go… find the penguin eggs, answer the questions, discover amazing facts about life in Antarctica and be rewarded with a chocolate egg.

Friday 6 April – Sunday 29 April during opening hours
Free

Children sitting in move theatre watching a kangaroo onscreen

Archive Alive!

Take an exciting journey through Australia’s screen and sound history with our experienced presenters. The whole family can check out Archive Alive — Saturday and Sunday at 11am and 3pm, free of charge. This is a fabulous introduction to some of our national audiovisual treasures. Bookings essential for groups of 25 or more on (02) 6248 2000.

Pause and Play

Pause and Play is our special, free, hands-on exhibit for kids aged 3-9.

You can draw your very own film strip, have a go at making a thaumatrope or find out about a musical instrument you have never heard of. Check out the family tree of film and sound and see some of the audiovisual equipment that your parents or even your great grandparents would have used.