Past exhibitions
Since 1999, the Australian War Memorial has hosted a wide range of special and touring exhibitions, each offering unique insights into Australia’s military history, remembrance, and the impact of conflict.
| Exhibition title | Dates |
|---|---|
| Napier Waller Art Prize 2024 | 29 May 2024 to 13 October 2024 |
| Napier Waller Art Prize 2022 | 26 June 2022 to 20 November 2022 |
| 23 September 2016 to 11 July 2021 | |
| 25 September 2020 to 16 May 2021 | |
| Hearts and Minds | 3 November 2017 to 14 March 2021 |
| Reality in flames | April 2014 to 22 November 2020 |
| Against all odds |
27 November 2019 to 1 June 2020 |
| The Courage for Peace | 18 October 2019 to 25 May 2020 |
|
Brothers in Arms: the Vietnamese Australian experience of the Vietnam War |
9 October 2019 to 1 April 2020 |
| Operation Hammersley - 50th anniversary | 10 Feb 2020 to 3 March 2020 |
| RAAF Catalina - 'First and furthest' | 3 December 2019 to 15 December 2019 |
| Napier Waller Art Prize 2019 | 20 September 2019 to 17 November 2019 |
| D Day: the Australian Story | 16 May 2019 to 15 September 2019 |
| After the War | 5 October 2018 to 15 September 2019 |
| Framing Memory | 10 April 2019 to 2 July 2019 |
| Great Escapes | 1 March 2019 to 1 June 2019 |
| A Lifetime of Service for Australia | 6 December 2018 to early May 2019 |
| The Hundred Days | 8 August 2018 to early 2019 |
| A camera on Gallipoli | April 2014 to December 2018 |
| Napier Waller Art Prize 2018 | 20 September 2018 to 25 November 2018 |
| Remember me: the lost diggers of Vignacourt | 2 November 2012 to 11 November 2018 |
| A Matter of Trust: Dayaks & Z Special Unit Operatives in Borneo 1945 | 12 April 2018 to 16 September 2018 |
| From the Shadows: Australia's Special Forces | 18 October 2017 to 9 September 2018 |
| Telling their stories | 8 April 2018 to 8 August 2018 |
| Commemorating the battle of Beersheba | 6 October 2017 to 30 November 2017 |
| The Deceiving Eye | 1 March 2017 to 29 October 2017 |
| Badhu Koewbu Gidhal: Stories of the war from Badu Island | 5 July 2017 to 4 October 2017 |
| To Heal the Nation | 27 July 2017 to 26 September 2017 |
| WW1 Avenue of Honour | September 2016 to March 2017 |
| William Edwin Pidgeon (1909–1981), war correspondent and artist | 6 March 2015 to 3 November 2016 |
| Ben Quilty: After Afghanistan | 12 December 2014 to 4 June 2015 |
| Anzac voices | 29 November 2013 to 30 November 2014 |
| Shaun Gladwell: Afghanistan | 15 June 2012 to 14 September 2014 |
| Perspectives: Jon Cattapan and eX de Medici | 2 September 2010 to 2 February 2014 |
| Salute: Canberra's military heritage | 16 August 2013 to 13 November 2013 |
| Of love and war | 3 December 2009 to 12 May 2013 |
| Framing Conflict: Iraq and Afghanistan - Lyndell Brown and Charles Green | 5 November 2008 to 18 November 2013 |
| Nurses: from Zululand to Afghanistan | 2 December 2011 to 17 October 2012 |
| Sidney Nolan: the Gallipoli series | 7 August 2009 to 1 June 2012 |
| Rats of Tobruk 1941 | 18 March 2011 to 16 November 2011 |
| A is for Animals: an A to Z of animals at war | 27 February 2009 to 18 September 2011 |
| Icon and Archive: Photography and the World Wars | 6 June 2008 to 28 August 2011 |
| A digger's best friend | 5 December 2009 to 28 June 2011 |
| This company of brave men: The Gallipoli VCs | 20 March 2010 to 17 December 2010 |
| George Lambert: Gallipoli and Palestine landscapes | 30 March 2007 to 2 May 2010 |
| Gallipoli: a Turkish view | 29 October 2004 to 25 April 2010 |
| Advancing to Victory, 1918 | 24 October 2008 to 11 February 2009 |
| Focus: photography and war 1945-2006 | 8 December 2006 to 1 February 2009 |
| Sport and War | 24 March 2006 to 26 October 2008 |
| 1918 Australia and the United States: allies on the Western Front | 9 April 2008 to 30 May 2008 |
| Lawrence of Arabia and the Light Horse | 7 December 2007 to 25 May 2008 |
| Australia under attack 1942-1943 | 10 December 2004 to 27 April 2008 |
| To Flanders fields, 1917 | 10 August 2007 to 25 November 2007 |
| Partners in Arms: Australia and America in war, 1917-2007 | 17 April 2007 to 11 May 2007 |
| Anzacs in France, 1916 | 7 July 2006 to 12 November 2006 |
| Witness to war: official art and photography 1999-2003 | 15 March 2005 to 12 November 2006 |
| Captured in Colour: rare photographs from the First World War | 12 September 2003 to 3 September 2006 |
| Shared experience | 8 May 2005 to 25 June 2006 |
| Fifty Australians | 19 August 2005 to 23 October 2005 |
| In enemy hands: Australian prisoners of war | 11 December 2002 to 2 October 2005 |
| Looking back: Australians on Crete - works of art by Michael Winters | 10 June 2005 to 7 August 2005 |
| Stolen Years: Australian prisoners of war | 8 November 2002 to 26 June 2005 |
| Dawn of the legend: 25 April 1915 | 15 April 2005 to 29 May 2005 |
| Shaping memory - sculpture at the Australian War Memorial | 13 August 2004 to 28 November 2004 |
| 1918 Australians in France | 10 November 1998 to 13 November 2004 |
| Australians in Iraq 2003 | 11 March 2004 to 1 August 2004 |
| Stella Bowen: art, love, and war | 15 March 2002 to 18 February 2004 |
| Two men - two wars | 9 May 2002 to 28 September 2003 |
| War without boundaries | 20 March 2003 to 31 August 2003 |
| Keeping the peace: stories of Australian peacekeepers | 18 September 2001 to 20 July 2003 |
| Cruel sea - the sinking of HMAS Armidale | 17 June 2002 to 27 October 2002 |
| Peter Churcher, official artist: the war against terrorism | 17 June 2002 to 27 October 2002 |
| Still action: the war photography of Damien Parer |
7 February 1997 to 17 March 2002 |
| Soldier for a crisis: Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey | 10 May 2001 to 13 March 2002 |
| Forging the nation, Federation - the first 20 years | 26 October 2000 to 25 February 2002 |
| Too dark for the Light Horse | 29 July 1999 to 4 November 2001 |
| Master of the battlefield - General Sir John Monash | 26 September 2000 to 8 September 2001 |
| New Zealand: the other Anzac | 23 April 2001 to 29 August 2001 |
| Out in the cold: Australia's involvement in the Korean War | 15 April 2000 to 3 February 2001 |
| Impressions: Australians in Vietnam | 14 October 1999 to 18 August 2000 |
| Up front: faces of Australia at war | 26 May 1998 to 30 March 2001 |
| Wendy Sharpe | 29 June 2000 to 23 July 2000 |
| Rick Amor | 2 March 2000 to 2 April 2000 |
| Ivor Hele: the heroic figure | 26 September 1997 to 27 February 2000 |