Family History
We can help you track down information about relatives who served in any of the conflicts in which Australia has been involved since the 1860s.
Upcoming events
- School holiday workshop: animals in war. BOOKED OUT 10:30am Mon 18 Apr
- Hands on history 11:00am Mon 18 Apr
- Women in war museum theatre performances 11:40am Mon 18 Apr
- Technology and innovation in wartime 12:00pm Mon 18 Apr
- Decoration from destruction: The First World War trench art of Sapper Pearl 2:30pm Mon 18 Apr
Opening hours
10am – 5pm daily
Closed Christmas Day
Admission to the Memorial is free
Exhibitions
Reality in flames
Reality in flames explores Australian modernist artists' response to the Second World War.
From 3 July 2015.
Afghanistan: the Australian story
Discover the extraordinary efforts of Australians in Afghanistan through the words of our veterans and their families.
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Mephisto
After 70 years of exhibition in Queensland the First World War German tank Mephisto has arrived at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. To commemorate the centenary of the First World War, the Memorial has collaborated with the Queensland Museum to display Mephisto outside Brisbane for the first time since it was transported from Europe after the end of the First World War. On display in Anzac Hall from 27 July.
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Gallipoli Centenary Commission: David Jolly
In 2015 the Australian War Memorial commissioned Melbourne-based artist David Jolly to attend the centenary Anzac Day Dawn Service on Gallipoli. Jolly created seven paintings on glass in response to key moments between arriving on site in the afternoon of 24 April, the long wait for dawn and the ceremony.
The Gallipoli Centenary Commission is on display until July 2016.
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Anzac Connections
More than 50,000 pages of First World War private collections have been digitised and released online, as part of the Anzac Connections project.
- Interested in transcribing letters and diaries? Find out more...
- The Daily Digger project on Twitter uses personal quotes drawn from digitised private letters and diaries of First World War diggers and nurses.
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Roll of Honour name projections
During the Centenary period, the name of each of the 62,000 Australians who gave their lives during the First World War will be projected onto the façade of the Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial. The names will be displayed from sunset to sunrise every night, and can be seen from the Memorial's grounds. Each name will be visible for 30 seconds.
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Registration now open
The Australian War Memorial and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation are excited to announce a reprise of the Roll of Honour Soundscape Project.
Once again students from schools Australia wide will have the opportunity to visit and ABC radio station and record the names and ages of those servicemen and servicewomen who gave their lives during the First World War.
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The Last Post Ceremony
At the end of each day, commencing at 4.55 AEST pm, the Memorial farewells visitors with its moving Last Post Ceremony.
