See the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum come to life at the launch of NAIDOC week celebrations in July!

Back by popular demand, the much anticipated fashion parade was the highlight of last year's celebrations and will again feature young models strutting their stuff on the catwalk. The launch will also highlight local murri artists and masks created by students from Gladstone

Young artists are invited to show their creative talent at the upcoming Golding Showcase: Port Curtis Callide Valley Youth Art Exhibition.

Held at the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum the annual exhibition provides an opportunity for young and emergent artists to display their work professionally in the region?s largest gallery space.

This is an excellent opportunity for young

Celebrate International Museum Day at the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum from May 14 to 20, 2007.

This year's theme for International Museum Day is Universal Heritage and the Gallery/Museum is hosting a number of free events to mark the occasion.

Throughout the week there will be a range of dinosaur-themed activities for our younger visitors.

On Thursday May 17 at 9:30am the

Join Australian Light Heavyweight Champion Ben McEachran at the launch of the Australian War Memorial's travelling exhibition Sport and War.

This national touring exhibition looks at the relationship between sport and war throughout Australia's history and includes Don Bradman's war medals, Keith Miller's cricket cap and a handmade Melbourne Cup crafted by prisoners of war in

The interactive exhibition Kids Time: A Century of Learning Through Play will finish on Saturday 5 May 2007 at 5pm.

This extremely popular exhibition has proven a hit with local school groups and families so if you haven't had the opportunity to see the history of toys and play for the last 100 years please make time to visit the show soon.

The Port Curtis region's selected

The Director-General of the National Archives of Australia, Ross Gibbs, will officially open Just Add Water: Schemes and Dreams for a Sunburnt Country at the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum at 6.30pm on Friday, 20 April 2007.

Drawing on the extensive resources at the National Archives, this topical exhibition takes a closer look at some of the water schemes attempted in Australia's

The 30 selected images in the annual photographic exchange between sister cities Gladstone and Saiki, Japan were announced at an evening function held at the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum on Thursday 5 April.

All 102 entries from the Gladstone region will be on display at the Gallery/Museum until 5 May before the 30 selected are enlarged, framed and sent to Japan to be displayed

The Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum invites you to step out and play at the official opening of two exciting new exhibitions on Thursday 29 March 2007 at 6pm.

Incorporating smell, sound and dress-up clothing, Kids Time: A Century of Learning Through Play, encourages 3-8 year olds to learn more about the world in which their parents and grandparents grew up.

Kids Time will be

In conjunction with the Tannum Sands Surf Lifesaving Club, the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum will be celebrating the centenary of lifesaving in Australia and the 2007 Year of the Surf Lifesaver at the opening of two exciting new exhibitions on Wednesday 7 March at 6pm.

Reel Heroes - Safe Beaches displays 112 fine art prints paying homage to this Australian institution and Local

The Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum will be hosting In-Service Training for Early Childhood Teachers in conjunction with the Queensland Museum touring exhibition Kids Time.

The session, led by Allan Morrison, will be held on Tuesday 27 March, 9:30am-12:30pm. Allan is the Museum Magnet Schools project officer whose role is to connect schools with museum learning resources including