Home
Plan your visit
Visitors require free timed tickets to enter the Memorial and to attend the daily Last Post Ceremony at 4:30 pm in the Commemorative Area.
Tickets will no longer be required from Friday 24 January 2025.
School and school aged group bookings
Explore the Galleries
Explore more than 7,000 objects on display from the National Collection.
The Memorial's galleries and exhibitions explore Australia's involvement in major conflicts and help to tell Australia’s continuing story of service, sacrifice and military history.
VIETNAM - ONE IN, ALL IN
An online exhibition sharing untold stories of Aboriginal Vietnam Veterans from South Australia.
Indigenous service
Explore a selection of resources related to the wartime experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Please be advised that the following pages contain the names, images and objects of deceased people.
Fifty years ago, on Christmas Day 1974, Judith Rowe stood in shock, staring at the collapsed building where she had sought shelter. The roof was gone, the structure reduced to rubble. Cyclone Tracy had unleashed its catastrophic force on Darwin, leaving the city in ruins.
Donna Dixon never met her uncle, Ken, or great-grand uncle, Peter. But both men hold a special place in her heart.
Dancing cheese and Kookaburras: rare costume designs offer a unique insight into the First World War
The Memorial has the largest collection of wartime artworks, in the world, by Hilda Rix Nicholas, due to a recent acquisition of 39 costume designs.