National Museum of Australia is located in the country's capital, Canberra, in the suburb of Acton. Here are a collection of items related to 50-thousand year history and culture of aboriginal Australia and the Torres Strait Islands, the history of Australia after 1788 and the Olympic games in Sydney in 2000. The Museum houses the world's largest collection of aboriginal paintings on bark and stone tools, the heart of the running horses-champion Spotlights Feet and the prototype of the first Australian car.

The Museum has five permanent exhibitions: "the Gallery of the first Australians", "Twisted fate", "the Colonization of Australia", "Symbols of Australia" and "Eternity: stories from the heart of Australia".

The building of the National Museum was opened on 11 March 2001 in celebration of the 100th anniversary since the establishment of the Australian Federation. But the idea of creating the Museum appeared in the early 20th century, however, its implementation was hampered by two world wars and financial crises. Only in 1980 the Australian Parliament issued a special decree on the establishment of the Museum, and began work on the collection of collections.

The total area of the Museum building, built in the style of postmodernism, is 6600 m?. It consists of several separate spaces, which are interconnected and form a semicircle around the so-called "Garden of Australian dreams". This sculptural composition in the form of a map on the water, with a little grass and a few trees, which depicts the Central part of the country with road markings, the names of the tribes of Australian aborigines and the limits of distribution of indigenous languages. Outside the building is painted in bright colors – orange, crimson, bronze, gold, black and silver, which stand out sharply against the background of the urban landscape. An interesting detail is on the walls of the building in Braille (for the blind) written phrases such as "friend", "sorry", "excuse us for genocide" (apparently addressed to the Australian aborigines), "God knows", "time will tell" and "love is blind". Some phrases, which caused great public interest, were closed silver plate. At the entrance to the Museum stands the orange sculpture Line "Uluru", made in the form of a loop, unfolding along the Peninsula Acton. In General, the architecture of the building urging people not to forget that the history of Australia is the story of many millions of destinies are intertwined.

In 2005 and 2006 the national Museum called the main tourist attraction in Australia.